It's become obvious the Billy Bragg ideal of a workers' paradise has crumbled into a hideous swarm of pigs gorging at the trough.
In line with the McGregor's ideal of unified workers was a "quest" to make order from the chaos around him.
In 1929, Soviet leader Mikhail Kalinin laid out his vision for Central Asia: "teaching the people of the Kirgiz Steppe, the small Uzbek cotton grower, and the Turkmenian gardener the ideals of the Leningrad worker". It was a tall order, especially when it came to religion.
Even today, when 46% of the U.S. workforce is made up of women and 81% of women have children by age 44, most good jobs in the U.S. (those with good benefits and pay and opportunities for advancement) are designed around the ideal of a worker who is available for and devoted to work 24/7, with no domestic responsibilities.
Tara Stacom, a vice chairwoman of Cushman & Wakefield, the leasing agency for the property, said the location was ideal for workers at all salary levels.
The Octavia Hill Society was set up in 1992 "to promote awareness of the ideas and ideals of Octavia Hill, her family, fellow workers and their relevance in today's society nationally and internationally".
Most importantly, an ideal candidate should have a passion for labor, social justice, and the advancement of workers' rights and workplace democracy.
The alienation of workers, the threat of political and economic stasis, and the failure of dull-witted leadership to achieve social ideals are the themes for his writings.
Another 51% of workers say that helping 'make a better world' and making a 'contribution to society' are essential for their ideal job.
How will co-ops, with their ideals of equity and democracy, cope in the recession?Workers' co-ops are often seen as hotbeds of radical, anti-capitalist thought.
