Author: Alex Gourevitch
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107033179
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 225
Book Description
This book reconstructs how a group of nineteenth-century labor reformers appropriated and radicalized the republican tradition. These "labor republicans" derived their definition of freedom from a long tradition of political theory dating back to the classical republics. In this tradition, to be free is to be independent of anyone else's will - to be dependent is to be a slave. Borrowing these ideas, labor republicans argued that wage laborers were unfree because of their abject dependence on their employers. Workers in a cooperative, on the other hand, were considered free because they equally and collectively controlled their work. Although these labor republicans are relatively unknown, this book details their unique, contemporary, and valuable perspective on both American history and the organization of the economy.
From Slavery to the Cooperative Commonwealth
Author: Alex Gourevitch
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107033179
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 225
Book Description
This book reconstructs how a group of nineteenth-century labor reformers appropriated and radicalized the republican tradition. These "labor republicans" derived their definition of freedom from a long tradition of political theory dating back to the classical republics. In this tradition, to be free is to be independent of anyone else's will - to be dependent is to be a slave. Borrowing these ideas, labor republicans argued that wage laborers were unfree because of their abject dependence on their employers. Workers in a cooperative, on the other hand, were considered free because they equally and collectively controlled their work. Although these labor republicans are relatively unknown, this book details their unique, contemporary, and valuable perspective on both American history and the organization of the economy.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107033179
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 225
Book Description
This book reconstructs how a group of nineteenth-century labor reformers appropriated and radicalized the republican tradition. These "labor republicans" derived their definition of freedom from a long tradition of political theory dating back to the classical republics. In this tradition, to be free is to be independent of anyone else's will - to be dependent is to be a slave. Borrowing these ideas, labor republicans argued that wage laborers were unfree because of their abject dependence on their employers. Workers in a cooperative, on the other hand, were considered free because they equally and collectively controlled their work. Although these labor republicans are relatively unknown, this book details their unique, contemporary, and valuable perspective on both American history and the organization of the economy.
The Co-operative Commonwealth
Author: Laurence Gronlund
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Socialism
Languages : en
Pages : 218
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Socialism
Languages : en
Pages : 218
Book Description
The Co-operative Commonwealth
Author: Laurence Gronlund
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Socialism
Languages : en
Pages : 284
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Socialism
Languages : en
Pages : 284
Book Description
Agrarian Socialism
Author: Seymour Martin Lipset
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 9780520020566
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 516
Book Description
A revision of the author's thesis (Ph.D.), Columbia University, 1949. Cf. p. [ix]
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 9780520020566
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 516
Book Description
A revision of the author's thesis (Ph.D.), Columbia University, 1949. Cf. p. [ix]
The Fate of Labour Socialism
Author: James Naylor
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
ISBN: 1442629096
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 442
Book Description
Almost a century before the New Democratic Party rode the first "orange wave," their predecessors imagined a movement that could rally Canadians against economic insecurity, win access to necessary services such as health care, and confront the threat of war. The party they built during the Great Depression, the Co-operative Commonwealth Federation (CCF), permanently transformed the country's politics. Past histories have described the CCF as social democrats guided by middle-class intellectuals, a party which shied away from labour radicalism and communist agitation. James Naylor's assiduous research tells a very different story: a CCF created by working-class activists steeped in Marxist ideology who sought to create a movement that would be both loyal to its socialist principles and appealing to the wider electorate. The Fate of Labour Socialism is a fundamental reexamination of the CCF and Canadian working-class politics in the 1930s, one that will help historians better understand Canada's political, intellectual, and labour history.
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
ISBN: 1442629096
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 442
Book Description
Almost a century before the New Democratic Party rode the first "orange wave," their predecessors imagined a movement that could rally Canadians against economic insecurity, win access to necessary services such as health care, and confront the threat of war. The party they built during the Great Depression, the Co-operative Commonwealth Federation (CCF), permanently transformed the country's politics. Past histories have described the CCF as social democrats guided by middle-class intellectuals, a party which shied away from labour radicalism and communist agitation. James Naylor's assiduous research tells a very different story: a CCF created by working-class activists steeped in Marxist ideology who sought to create a movement that would be both loyal to its socialist principles and appealing to the wider electorate. The Fate of Labour Socialism is a fundamental reexamination of the CCF and Canadian working-class politics in the 1930s, one that will help historians better understand Canada's political, intellectual, and labour history.
Program and Manifesto of the Co-operative Commonwealth Federation : a Comprehensive Statement of the Policies and Ideals of the C.C.F.
Author: Co-operative Commonwealth Federation. Saskatchewan Section
Publisher: Regina : The Federation
ISBN:
Category : Canada
Languages : en
Pages : 4
Book Description
Publisher: Regina : The Federation
ISBN:
Category : Canada
Languages : en
Pages : 4
Book Description
The Co-opolitan
Author: Zebina Forbush
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Cooperation
Languages : en
Pages : 176
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Cooperation
Languages : en
Pages : 176
Book Description
Cooperative Commonwealth
Author: Steven James Keillor
Publisher: Minnesota Historical Society Press
ISBN: 9780873513777
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 480
Book Description
By 1940, Minnesota was known as one the most cooperative-minded states in the Union. More than 600 cooperative creameries, 150 township mutual fire insurance companies, hundreds of rural telephone associations, and 270 farmers' elevators were proof of the power of economic cooperation, and they made Minnesota into a "cooperative commonwealth."
Publisher: Minnesota Historical Society Press
ISBN: 9780873513777
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 480
Book Description
By 1940, Minnesota was known as one the most cooperative-minded states in the Union. More than 600 cooperative creameries, 150 township mutual fire insurance companies, hundreds of rural telephone associations, and 270 farmers' elevators were proof of the power of economic cooperation, and they made Minnesota into a "cooperative commonwealth."
Everything for Everyone
Author: Nathan Schneider
Publisher: Bold Type Books
ISBN: 1568589603
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description
The origins of the next radical economy is rooted in a tradition that has empowered people for centuries and is now making a comeback. A new feudalism is on the rise. While monopolistic corporations feed their spoils to the rich, more and more of us are expected to live gig to gig. But, as Nathan Schneider shows, an alternative to the robber-baron economy is hiding in plain sight; we just need to know where to look. Cooperatives are jointly owned, democratically controlled enterprises that advance the economic, social, and cultural interests of their members. They often emerge during moments of crisis not unlike our own, putting people in charge of the workplaces, credit unions, grocery stores, healthcare, and utilities they depend on. Everything for Everyone chronicles this revolution--from taxi cooperatives keeping Uber at bay, to an outspoken mayor transforming his city in the Deep South, to a fugitive building a fairer version of Bitcoin, to the rural electric co-op members who are propelling an aging system into the future. As these pioneers show, co-ops are helping us rediscover our capacity for creative, powerful, and fair democracy.
Publisher: Bold Type Books
ISBN: 1568589603
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description
The origins of the next radical economy is rooted in a tradition that has empowered people for centuries and is now making a comeback. A new feudalism is on the rise. While monopolistic corporations feed their spoils to the rich, more and more of us are expected to live gig to gig. But, as Nathan Schneider shows, an alternative to the robber-baron economy is hiding in plain sight; we just need to know where to look. Cooperatives are jointly owned, democratically controlled enterprises that advance the economic, social, and cultural interests of their members. They often emerge during moments of crisis not unlike our own, putting people in charge of the workplaces, credit unions, grocery stores, healthcare, and utilities they depend on. Everything for Everyone chronicles this revolution--from taxi cooperatives keeping Uber at bay, to an outspoken mayor transforming his city in the Deep South, to a fugitive building a fairer version of Bitcoin, to the rural electric co-op members who are propelling an aging system into the future. As these pioneers show, co-ops are helping us rediscover our capacity for creative, powerful, and fair democracy.
The New Systems Reader
Author: James Gustave Speth
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1000171264
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 514
Book Description
The recognition is growing: truly addressing the problems of the 21st century requires going beyond small tweaks and modest reforms to business as usual—it requires "changing the system." But what does this mean? And what would it entail? The New Systems Reader highlights some of the most thoughtful, substantive, and promising answers to these questions, drawing on the work and ideas of some of the world’s key thinkers and activists on systemic change. Amid the failure of traditional politics and policies to address our fundamental challenges, an increasing number of thoughtful proposals and real-world models suggest new possibilities, this book convenes an essential conversation about the future we want.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1000171264
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 514
Book Description
The recognition is growing: truly addressing the problems of the 21st century requires going beyond small tweaks and modest reforms to business as usual—it requires "changing the system." But what does this mean? And what would it entail? The New Systems Reader highlights some of the most thoughtful, substantive, and promising answers to these questions, drawing on the work and ideas of some of the world’s key thinkers and activists on systemic change. Amid the failure of traditional politics and policies to address our fundamental challenges, an increasing number of thoughtful proposals and real-world models suggest new possibilities, this book convenes an essential conversation about the future we want.