Happiness Democracy And The Cooperative Movement

Author : Mark J. Kaswan
Publisher : State University of New York Press
ISBN 13 : 1438452055
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.50/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Happiness, Democracy, and the Cooperative Movement written by Mark J. Kaswan and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2014-05-19 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Happiness is political. The way we think about happiness affects what we do, how we relate to other people and the world around us, our moral principles, and even our ideas about how society should be organized. Utilitarianism, a political theory based on hedonistic and individualistic ideas of happiness, has been dominated for more than two-hundred years by its founder, Jeremy Bentham. In Happiness, Democracy, and the Cooperative Movement, Mark J. Kaswan examines the work of William Thompson, a friend of Bentham's who nonetheless offers a very different utilitarian philosophy and political theory based on a different conception of happiness, but whose work has been largely overlooked. Kaswan reveals the importance of our ideas about happiness for our understanding of the basic principles and nature of democracy, its role in society and its character as a social institution. In what is the closest examination of Thompson's political theory to date, Kaswan moves from philosophy to theory to practice, starting with conceptions of happiness before moving to theories of utility, then to democratic theory, and finally to practice in the first detailed account of how Thompson's ideas laid the foundations for the cooperative movement, which is now the world's largest democratic social movement.

Author : Leonard Woolf
Publisher : Legare Street Press
ISBN 13 : 9781020159213
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.19/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Control Of Industry By The People Through The Co-operative Movement written by Leonard Woolf and published by Legare Street Press. This book was released on 2023-07-18 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this influential book, published in 1919, British political theorist Leonard Woolf argues that the principles of cooperation and democratic control can be applied to industry to create a more equitable and efficient economy. Drawing on examples from the cooperative movement, Woolf outlines a vision for worker control and collective ownership of industry that challenges traditional models of capitalism and socialism. The book is a seminal work of democratic theory and a provocative critique of contemporary economic systems. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Author : Clyde W. Barrow
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1800375913
Total Pages : 813 pages
Book Rating : 4.18/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Encyclopedia of Critical Political Science written by Clyde W. Barrow and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 2024-03-14 with total page 813 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An indispensable and exemplary reference work, this Encyclopedia adeptly navigates the multidisciplinary field of critical political science, providing a comprehensive overview of the methods, approaches, concepts, scholars and journals that have come to influence the disciplineÕs development over the last six decades.

Author : Kirsten Madden
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0197693733
Total Pages : 361 pages
Book Rating : 4.35/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Building a Social Science written by Kirsten Madden and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2024 with total page 361 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Industrial Revolution offered promises of material abundance. In nineteenth century Britain, a series of major cooperative thinkers seized on these possibilities. In effect, they turned the mainstream economics of scarcity on its head and together shaped a humane social science. This book moves toward a reconstruction of nineteenth century British cooperative thought. The analysis is rich in insights still relevant to the present--insights concerning employment relations, persistent inequality, and low levels of human development.

Author : Ronnie Lessem
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317115449
Total Pages : 476 pages
Book Rating : 4.41/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Integral Polity written by Ronnie Lessem and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-05-23 with total page 476 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Releasing the genius of an individual, an enterprise and a society is a central pre-occupation of the contemporary business environment. A fascinating approach to how we can begin to tackle this challenge is presented by the authors of Integral Polity. Integral spirituality, integral philosophy and the integral age, at an overall or holistic level of consciousness, has therefore become a strong enough idea to form the genesis of a movement over the course of the last half century. Taking as a starting point the ground-breaking work of the Trans4m Centre for Integral Development this book applies such an ’integral’ notion to the realms of business, economics and enterprise. To be successful, an integral approach must recognise the nuances of its environment - an integral approach in India is different from that in Indonesia, or Iceland, and they may in fact complement rather than conflict. Therefore this book also provides a fascinating alignment of such ’integrality’ with, and between different ’southern’ and ’eastern’, ’northern’ and ’western’ worlds. Using case studies ranging across the globe this review of a newly integral theory and practice provides a new lease of life to what may increasingly be perceived as the self-seeking, insulated and occasionally violent and corrupt, realm of the political.

Author : Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America. Convention
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.29/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Proceedings of the ... Biennial Convention of the Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America written by Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America. Convention and published by . This book was released on 1920 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Amalgamated Clothing and Textile Workers Union
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 458 pages
Book Rating : 4.65/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Report of the General Executive Board - Amalgamated Clothing Textile Workers Union written by Amalgamated Clothing and Textile Workers Union and published by . This book was released on 1920 with total page 458 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1452 pages
Book Rating : 4.10/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Report of the General Executive Board and Proceedings of the Biennial Convention written by Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America and published by . This book was released on 1920 with total page 1452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Proceedings of the 1945-1973 conventions are included in Report of the General Executive Board.

Author : Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 458 pages
Book Rating : 4.92/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Documentary History of the Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America written by Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America and published by . This book was released on 1920 with total page 458 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contains proceedings of the 1st biennial convention.

Author : John Dewey
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 456 pages
Book Rating : 4.78/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Democracy and Education written by John Dewey and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 1916 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: . Renewal of Life by Transmission. The most notable distinction between living and inanimate things is that the former maintain themselves by renewal. A stone when struck resists. If its resistance is greater than the force of the blow struck, it remains outwardly unchanged. Otherwise, it is shattered into smaller bits. Never does the stone attempt to react in such a way that it may maintain itself against the blow, much less so as to render the blow a contributing factor to its own continued action. While the living thing may easily be crushed by superior force, it none the less tries to turn the energies which act upon it into means of its own further existence. If it cannot do so, it does not just split into smaller pieces (at least in the higher forms of life), but loses its identity as a living thing. As long as it endures, it struggles to use surrounding energies in its own behalf. It uses light, air, moisture, and the material of soil. To say that it uses them is to say that it turns them into means of its own conservation. As long as it is growing, the energy it expends in thus turning the environment to account is more than compensated for by the return it gets: it grows. Understanding the word "control" in this sense, it may be said that a living being is one that subjugates and controls for its own continued activity the energies that would otherwise use it up. Life is a self-renewing process through action upon the environment.