Understanding the Social Economy of the United States is a comprehensive introduction to the operation and study of organizations with social goals: public sector nonprofits, civil society organizations, social enterprises, cooperatives, and other organizations with a social mis…
The introduction of co-operative societies into the Irish countryside during the late-nineteenth century transformed rural society and created an enduring economic legacy. Civilising rural Ireland challenges predominant narratives of Irish history that explain the emergence of t…
Introduction: equitable pioneers -- All things in common : prehistory -- The lovely principle : formation -- The clock of the world : disruption -- Gold rush : money -- Slow computing : platforms -- Free the land : power -- Phase transition: commonwealth -- Acknowledgments -- No…
This Handbook investigates all types of 'member owned' organizations, whether consumer co-operatives, agricultural and producer co-operatives, or worker co-operatives among many others. The chapters reflect the latest academic research and thinking on each topic, as well as repo…
"This book surveys the history of the cooperative movement from its origins in the 18th century and deals with the theory of cooperation, as contrasted with the 'Standard Economic Model', based on competition. The book contains the results of field studies of a number of success…
"This book surveys the history of the cooperative movement from its origins in the 18th century and deals with the theory of cooperation, as contrasted with the 'Standard Economic Model', based on competition. The book contains the results of field studies of a number of success…
"In their darkest hours over the course of the twentieth century, W. E. B. Du Bois, Ella Baker, George Schuyler, and Fannie Lou Hamer gathered hundreds across the United States and beyond to build vast, now forgotten, networks of mutual aid: farms, shops, schools, banks, daycare…
