#artel

• Antitrust — Opposing trusts, monopolies, cartels, or anti-competitive commercial practices; the assembly of laws, regulations, and state policies designed to protect free market competition, prevent mergers that limit trade, and punish the abuse of dominant position by large corporations.
• Artel — A historical form of cooperative association or autonomous production guild, specific to the Russian Empire and later the early Soviet period, in which members (artisans, fishermen, peasants, or laborers) voluntarily united to carry out a common economic activity. Within an artel, labor was collective, income was distributed according to contribution or agreement, and members shared joint liability for the obligations assumed, a model occasionally imported into neighboring areas or referenced in period economic literature.
• Artel leader — A regional historical term, sporadically used in the past to designate an administrator, an overseer, or the leader of an artel (workers cooperative). The artelnic was responsible for organizing collective labor, keeping records of materials, legally representing the associated members before local authorities, and equitably distributing earnings obtained from selling common products or services.