> At Mondragon, there are agreed-upon wage ratios between executive work and field or factory work which earns a minimum wage. > These comparatively low wages can make it very difficult to recruit managers from investor-owned firms.

Wow, actually brilliant idea to keep out the nasty investor-owned firms away!

Ah, I couldn't figure out why it sounded vaguely familiar until I saw the "Works of Kim Stanley Robinson" section at the bottom of the page:

> The Mondragon Corporation already appeared in Robinson's earlier Mars trilogy, as one of the Terran groups involved in the colonization and terraforming of Mars; the coop is also portrayed as the inspiration of both the bogdanovist movement [52] and the libertarian-leaning Praxis Corporation[53] two of the main forces leading the revolution for the independence of Mars.

Red Mars was one of the best sci-fi books I've ever read, but Green Mars starts pretty slow so I didn't get very far into it. I think I'll start the trilogy over.