01096nas a2200109   4500008004100000245003600041210003600077260001200113520077000125100002200895856006900917       2014                        eng d00aCooperative Labor Beyond Growth0 aCooperative Labor Beyond Growth  aLeipzig3 aEconomic growth in capitalism is structurally tied to the organization of labour as wage work. In capitalism an employee produces surplus for an employer to fulfill the economic anticipation invested in the firm. This 'growth imperative' is built inside the form of wage work. In the contemporary era of permanent economic and ecological crisis, the capitalistic growth has to be questioned radically. The cooperative mode of labor is an alternative to wage work. In a cooperative workers control their own work. In this presentation I go through the theoretical critique against the wage work as well as the critique against the worker cooperative movement. I study the social conditions in which the worker control may mean disconnecting from capitalistic growth.1 aPeltokoski, Jukka  uhttps://degrowth.community/conference2014/scientific-papers/3561