Cooperatives Confront Capitalism

Peter Ranis

ISBN 10: 1783606509 / ISBN 13: 9781783606504

Published by Bloomsbury Publishing PLC, GB, 2016

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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.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Cooperatives Confront Capitalism
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC, GB
• Publication Date: 2016
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1783606509
• ISBN 13: 9781783606504
• Binding: Hardback
• Condition: New
• Weight: 381 grams

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Synopsis

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.

About the Author

Peter Ranis is Professor Emeritus in the Ph.D. Program in Political Science at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. He has over 80 publications in various areas of social science, and has published four books, among them Class, Democracy and Labor in Contemporary Argentina (1995); and Argentine Workers: Peronism and Contemporary Class Consciousness (1992).