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Marta Harnecker

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Co-Management Advances in Alcasa

Aluminum Workers in Venezuela Choose Their Managers and Increase Production

by Marta Harnecker

Caracas (Venezuela) | 30 March 2005

Alcasa, a state-owned aluminum processing plant in the South-Eastern state of Bolívar, has long been an important employer in a region where the lion’s share of Venezuela’s mining and processing plants are located. Yet since the mid-1990s it has been plagued by inefficiency and corruption. (...)