In 2019, the Mondragon worker cooperatives, which number around 100, employed over 81 000 workers. Based primarily on information from the Mondragon annual reports, this article traces Mondragon’s employment record from 1983–2019. In this period its Spanish employment growth outran that of Spain by a factor of 3.4, and that of the aggregated oecd countries by a factor of 6.3. On top of the Spanish employment, Mondragon cooperatives’ subsidiaries employed about 4300 workers abroad (7% of the total) in 2001, and about 14 500 (18% of the total) in 2019. The article expands on the reasons for this last type of employment. The article also explains why the proportion of cooperative owner-members in the total employment varies over time. Depending on the sector, in 2019 this proportion is 32–45%, and measured as a proportion of the employment in cooperatives 32–74%—the difference being engendered by non-cooperative subsidiaries. Many cooperatives regard these proportions as second-best practices in the search for a modus between competitive pressures and the maintenance of employment within cooperatives.

2019年，蒙德拉贡工人合作社约有100个，雇用了超过81,000名工人。本文主要基于蒙德拉贡年度报告中的信息，追溯了蒙德拉贡 1983 年至 2019 年的就业记录。在此期间，西班牙的就业增长率比西班牙高出 3.4 倍，是经合组织国家的就业增长率的 3.4 倍。国家的 6.3 倍。除了西班牙就业之外，蒙德拉贡合作社的子公司 2001 年在国外雇用了约 4300 名工人（占总数的 7%），2019 年雇用了约 14 500 名工人（占总数的 18%）。本文详细阐述了最后一种类型的原因的就业。文章还解释了为什么合作社业主成员占总就业人数的比例随时间变化。根据行业的不同，2019 年这一比例为 32-45%，以合作社就业比例衡量为 32-74%——差异是由非合作社子公司造成的。许多合作社将这些比例视为在合作社内部寻求竞争压力和维持就业之间的平衡点的次优做法。