Cooperatives Confront Capitalism: Challenging the Neoliberal Economy

ISBN-13: 9781783606504 / Angielski / Twarda / 2016 / 181 str.

Peter Ranis

Opis

Business co-operatives can offer successful alternative models of decision making, employment, and operation without the existence of managerial and hierarchical structures. Through case studies spanning the United States, Europe, and Latin America including the first in-depth look at the Cuban co-operative movement, Peter Ranis explores how co-operatives have evolved in response to the recent economic crisis and how the success of co-operatives is spurring the reinvention of labor unions today.
Placing the work of key radical theorists including Marx, Gramsci, and Luxembourg alongside that of contemporary political economists such as Block, Piketty, and Stiglitz, Cooperatives Confront Capitalism provides a unique theoretical synthesis and offers a far-reaching analysis of the ideas, achievements, and wider historical context of the cooperative movement. It will be essential reading for anyone interested in how co-operatives and democratic worker organizations can create a lasting solution to unemployment and poverty."

Spis treści

1. Why Worker Cooperatives? The Historical Underpinnings and Defense of Worker Cooperatives 2. The Role of the State and the US Social Economy 3. Worker Cooperatives in the Post-Occupy Digital Economy 4. Argentina’s Cooperative Challenges and Breakthroughs 5. Argentina’s Leading Edge 6. The Proliferation and Internationalization of the Argentine Cooperative Experience 7. Eminent Domain: Confronting the Loss of Jobs in the United States 8. Building Toward Worker Cooperatives by the Use of Eminent Domain in the United States 9. Cuban Cooperatives as a Gateway to Economic Democracy 10. Toward Worker Autonomy in the United States