Robert Oakeshott, a quixotic and indefatigable defender of employee ownership, i.e. producers’ cooperatives, died last month. As co-editor of The Christian Response to Industrial Capitalism and other books advocating what might be termed subsidiarity in the workplace, Oakeshott helped to popularize the idea of a genuine stakeholder economy. Influenced by the Catholic social teaching that inspired the founding of the Mondragon cooperatives in Spain and by the Christian vision of industrial cooperation that led Ernest Bader to transform his own company into the Scott Bader Commonwealth, Oakeshott’s own contribution to subsidiarism, or distributism, was considerable. Here’s a link to his obituary in The Economist:
http://www.economist.com/node/18928266?story_id=18928266