Toward A Cooperative Commonwealth

Author : Thomas Alter
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 462 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2022-04-12
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780252053276

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Toward a Cooperative Commonwealth by Thomas Alter Pdf

Agrarian radicalism's challenge to capitalism played a central role in working-class ideology while making third parties and protest movements a potent force in politics. Thomas Alter II follows three generations of German immigrants in Texas to examine the evolution of agrarian radicalism and the American and transnational ideas that influenced it. Otto Meitzen left Prussia for Texas in the wake of the failed 1848 Revolution. His son and grandson took part in decades-long activism with organizations from the Greenback Labor Party and the Grange to the Populist movement and Texas Socialist Party. As Alter tells their stories, he analyzes the southern wing of the era's farmer-labor bloc and the parallel history of African American political struggle in Texas. Alliances with Mexican revolutionaries, Irish militants, and others shaped an international legacy of working-class radicalism that moved U.S. politics to the left. That legacy, in turn, pushed forward economic reform during the Progressive and New Deal eras. A rare look at the German roots of radicalism in Texas, Toward a Cooperative Commonwealth illuminates the labor movements and populist ideas that changed the nation’s course at a pivotal time in its history.

Author : Harry W. Mangold
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 30 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 1937
Category : Chain stores, Voluntary
ISBN : OCLC:63111025

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Toward a Cooperative Commonwealth by Harry W. Mangold Pdf

Author : Nathan Schneider
Publisher : Bold Type Books
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2018-09-11
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781568589602

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Everything for Everyone by Nathan Schneider Pdf

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.

Author : Alex Gourevitch
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781107033177

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From Slavery to the Cooperative Commonwealth by Alex Gourevitch Pdf

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.

Author : Arthur Lipow
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 342 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2023-11-10
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780520326361

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Authoritarian Socialism in America by Arthur Lipow Pdf

In Authoritarian Socialism Arthur Lipow raises important issues about the nature of democracy and defines the intellectual roots of the authoritarian side of the socialist tradition in America and distinguishes it from democratic socialism. This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1982.

Author : Michael Kazin
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2012-09-04
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780307279194

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American Dreamers by Michael Kazin Pdf

ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: NEWSWEEK/THE DAILY BEAST, THE NEW REPUBLIC, THE PROGRESSIVE The definitive history of the reformers, radicals, and idealists who fought for a different America, from the abolitionists to Michael Moore and Noam Chomsky. While the history of the left is a long story of idealism and determination, it has also been a story of movements that failed to gain support from mainstream America. In American Dreamers, Michael Kazin—one of the most respected historians of the American left working today—tells a new history of the movements that, while not fully succeeding on their own terms, nonetheless made lasting contributions to American society. Among these culture shaping events are the fight for equal opportunity for women, racial minorities, and homosexuals; the celebration of sexual pleasure; the inclusion of multiculturalism in the media and school curricula; and the creation of books and films with altruistic and anti-authoritarian messages. Deeply informed, judicious and impassioned, and superbly written, this is an essential book for our times and for anyone seeking to understand our political history and the people who made it.

Author : David Montgomery
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1979
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0521280060

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Workers' Control in America by David Montgomery Pdf

A collection of essays on workers' efforts in the 19th and 20th centuries to assert control over the processes of production in US. It describes the development of management techniques and includes discussions of various worker and union responses to unemployment.

Author : Michael Cassity
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1989-05-22
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0887068693

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Defending a Way of Life by Michael Cassity Pdf

This book profiles an American community in the nineteenth century to show the larger process by which the nation was transformed from a life close to the frontier to that characteristic of industrial capitalism. Michael Cassity considers this economic change from the broader perspective of an historian of the American people, offering insights into its social implications and consequences. With graceful and moving prose, Cassity focuses on the process of social change, the pains that change generated, and the resistance to it. In the course of this transformation, the author examines the ways in which workers, farmers, businessmen, and women experienced and responded to the rise of a new industrial order.

Author : Kenneth Teitelbaum
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2020-04-28
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781000058116

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Critical Issues in Democratic Schooling by Kenneth Teitelbaum Pdf

Focusing on a wide range of critical issues, this book provides a comprehensive analysis of the linkage of different educational ideas, policies, and practices to a commitment for democratic schooling. Informed by significant, interdisciplinary research, as well as by his own extensive professional experiences as a teacher, professor, department chair, and dean, Teitelbaum examines contemporary concerns related to three broad areas: 1) teaching and teacher education; 2) curriculum studies; and 3) multiculturalism and social justice. His approach is to integrate the current and the historical, the practical and the theoretical, the technical and the socio-political, and the personal and the structural. With this volume, Teitelbaum considers how schools should be organized and funded, what they should teach and to whom, the role that teachers, students, and parents should play in school life, and the need and prospects for schools and teacher education programs that foster meaningful learning, critical reflection, and social justice.

Author : Alan Lawson,R. Alan Lawson
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 299 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2006-07-24
Category : History
ISBN : 9780801884061

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A Commonwealth of Hope by Alan Lawson,R. Alan Lawson Pdf

Did the New Deal represent the true American way or was it an aberration that would last only until the old order could reassert itself? This original and thoughtful study tells the story of the New Deal, explains its origins, and assesses its legacy. Alan Lawson explores how the circumstances of the Great Depression and the distinctive leadership of Franklin D. Roosevelt combined to bring about unprecedented economic and policy reform. Challenging conventional wisdom, he argues that the New Deal was not an improvised response to an unexpected crisis, but the realization of a unique opportunity to put into practice Roosevelt’s long-developed progressive thought. Lawson focuses on where the impetus and plans for the New Deal originated, how Roosevelt and those closest to him sought to fashion a cooperative commonwealth, and what happened when the impulse for collective unity was thwarted. He describes the impact of the Great Depression on the prevailing system and traces the fortunes of several major social sectors as the drive to create a cohesive plan for reconstruction unfolded. He continues the story of these main sectors through the last half of the 1930s and traces their legacy down to the present as crucial challenges to the New Deal have arisen. Drawing from a wide variety of scholarly texts, records of the Roosevelt administration, Depression-era newspapers and periodicals, and biographies and reflections of the New Dealers, Lawson offers a comprehensive conceptual base for a crucial aspect of American history.

Author : John Restakis
Publisher : New Society Publishers
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2010-09-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781550924619

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Humanizing the Economy by John Restakis Pdf

How the largest social movement in history is making the world a better place. At the close of the twentieth century, corporate capitalism extended its reach over the globe. While its defenders argue that globalization is the only way forward for modern, democratic societies, the spread of this system is failing to meet even the most basic needs of billions of individuals around the world. Moreover, the entrenchment of this free market system is undermining the foundations of healthy societies, caring communities, and personal wellbeing. Humanizing the Economy shows how co-operative models for economic and social development can create a more equitable, just, and humane future. With over 800 million members in 85 countries and a long history linking economic to social values, the co-operative movement is the most powerful grassroots movement in the world. Its future as an alternative to corporate capitalism is explored through a wide range of real-world examples including: Emilia Romagna's co-operative economy of in Northern Italy Argentina's recovered factory movement Japan's consumer and health co-operatives Highlighting the hopes and struggles of everyday people seeking to make their world a better place, Humanizing the Economy is essential reading for anyone who cares about the reform of economics, globalization, and social justice. John Restakis has been active in the co-op movement for 15 years. He is the Executive Director of the BC Co-operative Association and has been a consultant for co-op development projects in Africa and Asia. A pioneering researcher on co-operative economies, he writes and lectures on economic democracy and the role of co-operatives in humanizing economies.

Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Commerce
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 2202 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1949
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UOM:39015026432024

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Hearings by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Commerce Pdf

Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1370 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1949
Category : Railroads
ISBN : UCAL:B5179468

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Railroad Safety (communications Systems for Trains) Hearings Before a Subcommittee of the Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce, United States Senate, Eighty-first Congress, First Session, on S. 238 by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce Pdf

Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1949
Category : Electronic
ISBN : STANFORD:36105110728248

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Nomination of John J. Carson to be a Member of the Federal Trade Commission by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce Pdf

Author : Anne Gessler
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2020-06-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781496827609

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Cooperatives in New Orleans by Anne Gessler Pdf

Cooperatives have been central to the development of New Orleans. Anne Gessler asserts that local cooperatives have reshaped its built environment by changing where people interact and with whom, helping them collapse social hierarchies and envision new political systems. Gessler tracks many neighborhood cooperatives, spanning from the 1890s to the present, whose alliances with union, consumer, and social justice activists animated successive generations of regional networks and stimulated urban growth in New Orleans. Studying alternative forms of social organization within the city’s multiple integrated spaces, women, people of color, and laborers blended neighborhood-based African, Caribbean, and European communal activism with international cooperative principles to democratize exploitative systems of consumption, production, and exchange. From utopian socialist workers’ unions and Rochdale grocery stores to black liberationist theater collectives and community gardens, these cooperative entities integrated marginalized residents into democratic governance while equally distributing profits among members. Besides economic development, neighborhood cooperatives participated in heady debates over urban land use, applying egalitarian cooperative principles to modernize New Orleans’s crumbling infrastructure, monopolistic food distribution systems, and spotty welfare programs. As Gessler indicates, cooperative activists deployed street-level subsistence tactics to mobilize continual waves of ordinary people seizing control over mainstream economic and political institutions.