Building Democratic Alternatives Beyond Capitalism for Today and the Future
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* Book: Beyond Capitalism: Building Democratic Alternatives for Today and the Future. Edited by: Jeff Shantz & José Brendan Macdonald. Bloomsbury PUb., 2013
URL = http://jeffshantz.ca/beyondcapitalism
Description
"Featuring essays by international scholars and activists from various spheres of the anti-capitalist left, the work features many examples from the north and the south, to cover both the historically-advanced and late capitalist economies. It discusses such initiatives as participatory economics, the Mondragon experience, worker cooperatives in Europe and Latin America, solidarity economy in South Africa, and more." (http://jeffshantz.ca/beyondcapitalism)
Contents
Examples
Covered in the book are
- Especismo in Brazil: The FAG 64
- Especismo in Argentina: AUCA and the OSL 66
- The Argentinean model of “barter club” transmuted in Brazil 79
- The Ikerlan and Ideko technological centers 111 (Mondragon)
- The Social Economy in Venezuela: Between the Will and the Possibility 183
- Farming Cooperatives and the Emerging Solidarity Economy Alternative in South Africa 241
- Mapping solidarity economy food cooperatives 248 (South Africa)
- Kadishi Agricultural Cooperative 250
- Mathomo Mayo Organic Agricultural Cooperative 252