@jlou If the coop doesn’t own the factory, aren’t they just a labor union? One of the fundamentals of a worker coop is that the workers own the business. If all of the productive capacity of that business is property of the factory owner, then what do those workers own?

Also, I’m intrigued by your distinction of the firm from the corporation. Can you expand on what you mean by “legally securing the right to the role of the firm for labor while leaving private property and markets intact.”?