Everything for everyone
Subtitle: the radical tradition that is shaping the next economy
By: Nathan Schneider
Edition: First edition.
Published: 2018
Language: eng
Number of pages: 290
ISBN-13: 9781568589596
Copyright date: 2018
Subjects: Social aspects; History; Political participation; Cooperative societies; Capitalism
Description: "The origins of the next radical economy is rooted in a tradition that has empowered people for centuries and is now making a comeback. A new feudalism is on the rise. While monopolistic corporations feed their spoils to the rich, more and more of us are expected to live gig to gig. But, as Nathan Schneider shows, an alternative to the robber-baron economy is hiding in plain sight; we just need to know where to look. Cooperatives are jointly owned, democratically controlled enterprises that advance the economic, social, and cultural interests of their members. They often emerge during moments of crisis not unlike our own, putting people in charge of the workplaces, credit unions, grocery stores, healthcare, and utilities they depend on. Everything for Everyone chronicles this revolution--from taxi cooperatives keeping Uber at bay, to an outspoken mayor transforming his city in the Deep South, to a fugitive building a fairer version of Bitcoin, to the rural electric co-op members who are propelling an aging system into the future. As these pioneers show, co-ops are helping us rediscover our capacity for creative, powerful, and fair democracy." -- Publisher's description
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 237-268) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: equitable pioneers; title: All things in common : prehistory; title: The lovely principle : formation; title: The clock of the world : disruption; title: Gold rush : money; title: Slow computing : platforms; title: Free the land : power; title: Phase transition: commonwealth; title: Acknowledgments; title: Notes; title: illustration credits; title: index.