František Ladislav Chleborád

František Ladislav Chleborád (1839–1911) was a Czech economist and early supporter of worker cooperatives to solve the problem of lack of capital amongst Czech entrepreneurs. In the 1860s and '70s, he argued in the Czech newspapers Delnik and Delnicky Listy for nationalist socialism and cooperation between Czech employers and workers.

He founded Oul (Czech for 'beehive'), a workers mutual aid society, in Prague in 1868, the same year in which he produced his first major work, The Patriotic Economy. The organization was inspired by the ideas of Herman Schulz-Delitzsch from Germany. The Czech mutual aid, or self-help, movement spread outside of Prague and was also established in the Brno and Liberec areas.