started by a roman catholic priest in the very northern part of spain just on the side of the pyrenees mountains and he decided at the time of great unemployment that one way to put workers back to work was not to wait for an employer to come along and see profit in hiring them but to get them together and set up their own industries and the feeling that workers would not only be able to run their own enterprises they'd be much more motivated to work hard and to work effectively if they directed what they did they didn't just take a. orders from somebody else though they started very small over fifty years ago they are now a huge operation as you describe it very very successful proving to the entire world that when workers run their own enterprise when there is no gap between the capitalist who gives the orders and the worker who takes them the capitalist who gets the output and the worker who has to go home without it when you break that model it turns out wonderful things can be done that last a long time many of the more workers are now the children of the first generation of mom to go on wo