Cooperatives Confront Capitalism

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 neg [...]
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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.