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Collective Courage

Author : Jessica Gordon Nembhard
Publisher : Penn State Press
ISBN 13 : 0271064269
Total Pages : 325 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (71 download)

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Download or read book Collective Courage written by Jessica Gordon Nembhard and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2015-06-13 with total page 325 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Collective Courage, Jessica Gordon Nembhard chronicles African American cooperative business ownership and its place in the movements for Black civil rights and economic equality. Not since W. E. B. Du Bois’s 1907 Economic Co-operation Among Negro Americans has there been a full-length, nationwide study of African American cooperatives. Collective Courage extends that story into the twenty-first century. Many of the players are well known in the history of the African American experience: Du Bois, A. Philip Randolph and the Ladies' Auxiliary to the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters, Nannie Helen Burroughs, Fannie Lou Hamer, Ella Jo Baker, George Schuyler and the Young Negroes’ Co-operative League, the Nation of Islam, and the Black Panther Party. Adding the cooperative movement to Black history results in a retelling of the African American experience, with an increased understanding of African American collective economic agency and grassroots economic organizing. To tell the story, Gordon Nembhard uses a variety of newspapers, period magazines, and journals; co-ops’ articles of incorporation, minutes from annual meetings, newsletters, budgets, and income statements; and scholarly books, memoirs, and biographies. These sources reveal the achievements and challenges of Black co-ops, collective economic action, and social entrepreneurship. Gordon Nembhard finds that African Americans, as well as other people of color and low-income people, have benefitted greatly from cooperative ownership and democratic economic participation throughout the nation’s history.

Worker Cooperatives and Revolution

Author : Chris Wright
Publisher : Booklocker
ISBN 13 : 1632634325
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (326 download)

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Download or read book Worker Cooperatives and Revolution written by Chris Wright and published by Booklocker. This book was released on 2014-08-20 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since the financial crisis of 2008 and the global popular protests of 2011, more people have begun to wonder and speculate: what’s next for civilization? The economic, social, and political status quo seems unsustainable, but what can emerge to take its place? In this book, a historian examines the past and present to argue that the seeds of a more humane society are already being planted, on local and international scales. Whether they will bear fruit depends, ultimately, on grassroots initiative. Focusing on the new worker cooperative movement in the West, this study not only contains the first systematic discussion of the solidarity economy in the light of Marxist theory; it also introduces a major revision of Marxism that both updates it for the twenty-first century and illuminates our historical moment. It includes an analysis of the history of cooperatives in the U.S., showing where they went wrong and how we can correct their past mistakes. It has a case-study of the successful new worker-owned business New Era Windows in Chicago, which has been celebrated internationally for its defiance of conventional paradigms. And it shows a way out of the age-old conflict between Marxism and anarchism, arguing that both are more relevant now than they have ever been. Which is to say: a gradualist “revolution” is, for the first time, within the realm of possibility.

Cooperatives, the State, and Corporate Power in African Export Agriculture

Author : KARIN. WEDIG
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 9780367660543
Total Pages : 230 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (65 download)

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Download or read book Cooperatives, the State, and Corporate Power in African Export Agriculture written by KARIN. WEDIG and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-09-30 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Agriculture is a major contributor to Africa's GDP, the region's biggest source of employment and its largest food producer. However, agricultural productivity remains low and buyer-driven global value chains offer few opportunities for small producers to upgrade into higher value-added activities. In recent years, the revival of Africa's cooperatives has been celebrated by governments and international donors as a pathway towards inclusive agricultural development, and this book explores the strengths but also the issues which surround these cooperatives. The book scrutinizes the neoliberal ideal of economic prosperity arising through the operation of liberalized labor markets by illuminating the discriminatory nature of Uganda's informal labor relations. It points to the role of cooperatives as a potential instrument of progressive change in African export agriculture, where large numbers of small producers depend on casual wage work in addition to farming. In contrast to the portrayal, advanced by some governments and rarely questioned by donors, of an unproblematic co-existence of small producers' collective action and big capital interests, the author calls for a re-politicized debate on the Social and Solidarity Economy. As part of this, she highlights the adverse political and economic conditions faced by African cooperatives, including intense international competition in agricultural processing, inadequate access to infrastructure and services, and at times antagonistic state-cooperative relations. Supported by wide-ranging interdisciplinary evidence, including new ethnographic, survey and interview data, this book shows how cooperatives may be co-opted by both the state and corporations in a discourse that ignores structural inequalities in value chains and emphasizes poverty reduction over economic and political empowerment. It provides a critique of New Institutional Economics as a framework for understanding how institutions shape redistribution, and develops a political economy approach to explore the conditions for structural change in African export agriculture.

Cooperative Research and Development: The Industry—University—Government Relationship

Author : Albert N. Link
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 9400925220
Total Pages : 231 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (9 download)

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Download or read book Cooperative Research and Development: The Industry—University—Government Relationship written by Albert N. Link and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 231 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We must all hang together or surely we will all hang separately. Benjamin Franklin The significant apathy that characterized relationships between indus try and universities and the adversarial nature of relationships between industry and government have both faded rapidly in the 1980s as the realities of global competition have surfaced in the United States. Both industry and government leaders articulate a number of constructs for regaining our competitiveness in world markets. One of the more fre quent strategies prescribed in this new competitiveness era is cooperation. Different individuals or groups may espouse different definitions, inter pretations, or areas of emphasis, but the overall importance of this concept is substantial. Although examples of cooperative research have existed for several decades, the number and variety of relationships have expanded rapidly in the 1980s as corporations, universities, and governments have embraced this strategy. Joint ventures involving two or three firms increased from under 200 per year in the 1970s to over 400 per year by the mid-1980s. Multiple-firm cooperative arrangements are a more recent phenomenon, made possible by the National Cooperative Research Act of 1984. By mid- 1988,81 of these industry-level consortia had formed under the provisions of the 1984 Act. The rapid growth in cooperative research and development (R&D) is primarily a response to the pressures of international competition. As a corporate strategy, cooperative R&D meets short-term needs for assets to implement new approaches for coping with intensifying competition.

Building Cooperatives in California

Author : Lenny Goldberg
Publisher : Center for Policy Alternatives
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 76 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Building Cooperatives in California written by Lenny Goldberg and published by Center for Policy Alternatives. This book was released on 1983 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Cooperatives in New Orleans

Author : Anne Gessler
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN 13 : 1496827589
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (968 download)

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Download or read book Cooperatives in New Orleans written by Anne Gessler and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 2020-06-04 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Humanizing the Economy

Author : John Restakis
Publisher : New Society Publishers
ISBN 13 : 086571651X
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (657 download)

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Download or read book Humanizing the Economy written by John Restakis and published by New Society Publishers. This book was released on 2010-11-02 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How the largest social movement in history is making the world a better place.

Report on Cooperatives by the Joint State Government Commission to the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania

Author : Pennsylvania. General Assembly. Joint State Government Commission
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (47 download)

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Download or read book Report on Cooperatives by the Joint State Government Commission to the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania written by Pennsylvania. General Assembly. Joint State Government Commission and published by . This book was released on 1947 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Cooperatives Confront Capitalism

Author : Peter Ranis
Publisher : Zed Books Ltd.
ISBN 13 : 1783606525
Total Pages : 141 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (836 download)

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Download or read book Cooperatives Confront Capitalism written by Peter Ranis and published by Zed Books Ltd.. This book was released on 2016-08-15 with total page 141 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cooperatives the world over are successfully developing alternative models of decision-making, employment and operation without the existence of managers, executives and hierarchies. Through case studies spanning the US, Latin America and Europe, including valuable new work on the previously neglected cooperative movement in Cuba, Peter Ranis explores how cooperatives have evolved in response to the economic crisis. Going further yet, Ranis makes the novel argument that the constitutionally enshrined principle of 'eminent domain' can in fact be harnessed to create and defend worker cooperatives. Combining the work of key radical theorists, including Marx, Gramsci and Luxemburg, with that of contemporary political economists, such as Block, Piketty and Stiglitz, Cooperatives Confront Capitalism provides what is perhaps the most far-reaching analysis yet of the ideas, achievements and wider historical context of the cooperative movement.

State, Cooperatives and Development in Africa

Author : Hans Holmén
Publisher : Nordic Africa Institute
ISBN 13 : 9789171063007
Total Pages : 52 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (63 download)

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Download or read book State, Cooperatives and Development in Africa written by Hans Holmén and published by Nordic Africa Institute. This book was released on 1990 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Cooperatives and Socialism

Author : Camila Piñeiro Harnecker
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137277750
Total Pages : 576 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (372 download)

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Download or read book Cooperatives and Socialism written by Camila Piñeiro Harnecker and published by Springer. This book was released on 2012-11-29 with total page 576 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book demonstrates that the cooperative model is based on principles essential to building a more just and democratic society. It is argued that this is the best economic reform alternative to neoliberal capitalism and authoritarian socialism in Cuba, and that this model can also radically transform other economies around the world.

The Myth of Mondragon

Author : Sharryn Kasmir
Publisher : SUNY Press
ISBN 13 : 9780791430033
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (3 download)

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Download or read book The Myth of Mondragon written by Sharryn Kasmir and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 1996-01-01 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first critical account of the internationally renowned Mondragon cooperatives of the Basque region of Spain. The Mondragon cooperatives are seen as the leading alternative model to standard industrial organization; they are considered to be the most successful example of democratic decision making and worker ownership. However, the author argues that the vast scholarly and popular literature on Mondragon idealizes the cooperatives by falsely portraying them as apolitical institutions and by ignoring the experiences of shop floor workers. She shows how this creation of an idealized image of the cooperatives is part of a new global ideology that promotes cooperative labor-management relations in order to discredit labor unions and working-class organizations; this constitutes what she calls the "myth" of Mondragon.

Organizations Serving Cooperatives

Author : C. H. Kirkman
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 32 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (243 download)

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Download or read book Organizations Serving Cooperatives written by C. H. Kirkman and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Cooperatives and the State

Author : Alf Carlsson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9789171530134
Total Pages : 235 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (31 download)

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Download or read book Cooperatives and the State written by Alf Carlsson and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Relationship Between Agricultural Cooperatives and the State in Sweden

Author : M. Fregidou-Malama
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (137 download)

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Download or read book The Relationship Between Agricultural Cooperatives and the State in Sweden written by M. Fregidou-Malama and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On the basis of interviews made with twenty seven leading personalities from cooperatives and government institutions, it is identified, that two main dimensions, the economic and the social, are emphasized by different interest groups involved in the cooperative process. It is also indicated that the relationship between state and cooperatives, in varying degrees, combines these two basic dimensions over time in the actual cooperative law and thus focuses on one dimension, neglecting the other. Relationship is meant to anchor the economic and the social values of cooperatives in the political process, and enable them to be accepted. In conclusion, it can be argued that the state can influence the character of cooperatives by selecting specific actors in specific processes. For this reason, in order to secure a sustainable autonomous development of cooperatives, it is important to synthesize and take into consideration different interests in future relations between cooperatives and the state.

Everything for Everyone

Author : Nathan Schneider
Publisher : Bold Type Books
ISBN 13 : 1568589603
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (685 download)

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Download or read book Everything for Everyone written by Nathan Schneider and published by Bold Type Books. This book was released on 2018-09-11 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Farmer Cooperatives in the United States

Author : United States. Department of Agriculture. Economics, Statistics, and Cooperatives Service
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 36 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 (2 download)

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Download or read book Farmer Cooperatives in the United States written by United States. Department of Agriculture. Economics, Statistics, and Cooperatives Service and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: