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Other companies are firing, the Mondragón Corporacion Cooperativa is hiring. 44,894 employees in the past 10 years. With a total of 70,884 employees MCC is the largest consortium in the Basque country, the seventh largest in Spain and the most successful industrial co-operative in the world. A legend in its own lifetime - because MCC is growing despite economic crisis and globalisation, because MCC has never dismissed a worker and because nowhere else in the world are the assets distributed so equitably as in the valleys surrounding the city of Mondragón. It was here that the Jesuit Father José María Arizmendiarrieta founded the co-operative 50 years ago. The roots of his model: the Catholic social doctrine. The result: the largest industrial co-operative in the world. The way: the Basque flight from capitalism to the realistic utopia. At MCC the shares are not held by outsiders, but by in-house employees. They participate in the management and in the profit. Of course this is also a risk , in particular when one co-operative makes a loss instead of a profit. But even the employees are not made redundant, but they find work in the co-operative which is currently growing and making a profit. Solidarity among and with one another fortifies the 80 co-operatives, which produce everything from stoves to coaches, from industrial robots to steel scaffolding – everything that promises growth and profit.