from that of conventional wage-based labor and to that of autonomous individual work.
# Their internal regulation is formally defined by regimes that are democratically agreed upon and accepted by the worker-members.
# They shall be autonomous and independent, before the State and third parties, in their labor relations and management, and in the usage and management of the means of production.

Even though there is no universally accepted definition of a workers' cooperative, they can be considered to be businesses that make