Beyond capitalism : building democratic alternatives for today and the future /: building democratic alternatives for today and the future. (2013)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Jeff Shantz and José Brendan Macdonald.
• Other Names: Shantz, Jeff; Macdonald, José Brendan
• Contents: IntroductionPart I - Some Prospects for a Democratic Economy1 - The Challenge of a Democratic Economy (José Brendan Macdonald) 2 - The Parecon Proposal (Michael Albert)3 - Economic Democracy Through Prout, the Progressive Utilization Theory (Dada Maheshvarananda)4 - Anarchy in Action: Especifismo and Working-Class Organizing (Jeff Shantz) 5 - An Economy for the Common Good with Social Currencies (Heloisa Primavera ) Part II - Specific Cases for a Better World / From the Global North 6 - Innovation, the Cooperative Movement, and Self-Management: From the Technical School to the Centers of Research and Development and the University in the Trajectory of the Mondragón Experience (Alessandra Azevedo and Leda Gitahy) 7 - Worker Occupations and Worker Cooperatives - Examining Lessons from the 1970s and 1980s (Gregor Gall)8 - From Direct Action to Workers Assemblies: Unions and the G20 Protests in Toronto (Jeff Shantz) 9 - The Emerging Paradoxical Possibility of a Democratic Economy (Gar Alperovitz) / From the Global South 10 - The Social Economy in Venezuela: Between the Will and the Possibility (Juan Carlos Monedero) 11 - Argentine Worker Cooperatives in Civil Society: A Challenge to Capital-Labor Relations ( Peter Ranis)12 - Challenging the Globalised Agro-Food Complex: Farming Cooperatives and the Emerging Solidarity Economy Alternative in South Africa (Vishwas Satgar).
• Publisher Details: New York : Bloomsbury Academic
• Publication Date: 2013
• Extent: 1 online resource (304 pages)
• Subjects: 330.12; Capitalism; Democracy -- Economic aspects
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781623568771; 1623568773
• Related ISBNs: 9781623562625
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