Book Review: Guilds in the Middle Ages by Georges Renard Part I

Software cooperatives and the craft guilds of old have much in common. They both put the worker's well being as a top priority. Is there anything we can learn from the 300 years that the medieval guilds dominated the economy? What did they do well? Where did they go wrong? We will investigate these questions while reviewing the book.
Software co-operatives and meritocracies are more complex than you might think. These concepts sit on the intersection of self-organizing groups, capitalism, consultancies, meritocracies, law, and ethics. Help us discover the best way to structure a software co-operative.