"As Mondragón has transformed its regional economy, its worker-owners have faced real challenges in defending cooperative principles. This includes hiring non-owner wage workers and establishing subsidiaries outside Spain that are not cooperatives, according to a report by researchers Ignacio Bretos and Anjel Errasti."

"These challenges will affect the United States even more severely, where almost all forms in which people meet their needs (food, energy, health care) depend on extraction from other parts of the world."