Toward A Cooperative Commonwealth

Author : Thomas Alter
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
ISBN 13 : 0252053273
Total Pages : 462 pages
Book Rating : 4.76/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Toward a Cooperative Commonwealth written by Thomas Alter and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2022-04-12 with total page 462 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Agrarian radicalism's challenge to capitalism played a central role in working-class ideology while making third parties and protest movements a potent force in politics. Thomas Alter II follows three generations of German immigrants in Texas to examine the evolution of agrarian radicalism and the American and transnational ideas that influenced it. Otto Meitzen left Prussia for Texas in the wake of the failed 1848 Revolution. His son and grandson took part in decades-long activism with organizations from the Greenback Labor Party and the Grange to the Populist movement and Texas Socialist Party. As Alter tells their stories, he analyzes the southern wing of the era's farmer-labor bloc and the parallel history of African American political struggle in Texas. Alliances with Mexican revolutionaries, Irish militants, and others shaped an international legacy of working-class radicalism that moved U.S. politics to the left. That legacy, in turn, pushed forward economic reform during the Progressive and New Deal eras. A rare look at the German roots of radicalism in Texas, Toward a Cooperative Commonwealth illuminates the labor movements and populist ideas that changed the nation’s course at a pivotal time in its history.

Author : Harry W. Mangold
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 30 pages
Book Rating : 4.25/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Toward a Cooperative Commonwealth written by Harry W. Mangold and published by . This book was released on 1937 with total page 30 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Ralph Albertson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 32 pages
Book Rating : 4.34/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The American Cooperator [devoted to the Ideals of a Cooperative Commonwealth]. written by Ralph Albertson and published by . This book was released on 1903 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Steven James Keillor
Publisher : Minnesota Historical Society Press
ISBN 13 : 9780873513777
Total Pages : 480 pages
Book Rating : 4.70/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Cooperative Commonwealth written by Steven James Keillor and published by Minnesota Historical Society Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By 1940, Minnesota was known as one the most cooperative-minded states in the Union. More than 600 cooperative creameries, 150 township mutual fire insurance companies, hundreds of rural telephone associations, and 270 farmers' elevators were proof of the power of economic cooperation, and they made Minnesota into a "cooperative commonwealth."

Author : Laurence Gronlund
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 251 pages
Book Rating : 4.61/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Cooperative Commonwealth written by Laurence Gronlund and published by . This book was released on 1965 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Nathan Schneider
Publisher : Bold Type Books
ISBN 13 : 1568589603
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.02/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Everything for Everyone written by Nathan Schneider and published by Bold Type Books. This book was released on 2018-09-11 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Alex Gourevitch
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107033179
Total Pages : 225 pages
Book Rating : 4.77/5 ( download)

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Download or read book From Slavery to the Cooperative Commonwealth written by Alex Gourevitch and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2015 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book reconstructs how a group of nineteenth-century labor reformers appropriated and radicalized the republican tradition. These "labor republicans" derived their definition of freedom from a long tradition of political theory dating back to the classical republics. In this tradition, to be free is to be independent of anyone else's will - to be dependent is to be a slave. Borrowing these ideas, labor republicans argued that wage laborers were unfree because of their abject dependence on their employers. Workers in a cooperative, on the other hand, were considered free because they equally and collectively controlled their work. Although these labor republicans are relatively unknown, this book details their unique, contemporary, and valuable perspective on both American history and the organization of the economy.

Author : Michael Kazin
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0307279197
Total Pages : 353 pages
Book Rating : 4.94/5 ( download)

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Download or read book American Dreamers written by Michael Kazin and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2012-09-04 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: NEWSWEEK/THE DAILY BEAST, THE NEW REPUBLIC, THE PROGRESSIVE The definitive history of the reformers, radicals, and idealists who fought for a different America, from the abolitionists to Michael Moore and Noam Chomsky. While the history of the left is a long story of idealism and determination, it has also been a story of movements that failed to gain support from mainstream America. In American Dreamers, Michael Kazin—one of the most respected historians of the American left working today—tells a new history of the movements that, while not fully succeeding on their own terms, nonetheless made lasting contributions to American society. Among these culture shaping events are the fight for equal opportunity for women, racial minorities, and homosexuals; the celebration of sexual pleasure; the inclusion of multiculturalism in the media and school curricula; and the creation of books and films with altruistic and anti-authoritarian messages. Deeply informed, judicious and impassioned, and superbly written, this is an essential book for our times and for anyone seeking to understand our political history and the people who made it.

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 976 pages
Book Rating : 4.61/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The American Cooperator [devoted to the Ideals of a Cooperative Commonwealth]. written by and published by . This book was released on 1903 with total page 976 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Seymour Martin Lipset
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 9780393322545
Total Pages : 388 pages
Book Rating : 4.48/5 ( download)

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Download or read book It Didn't Happen Here written by Seymour Martin Lipset and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2000 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why socialism has failed to play a significant role in the United States - the most developed capitalist industrial society and hence, ostensibly, fertile ground for socialism - has been a critical question of American history and political development. This study surveys the various explanations for this phenomenon of American political exceptionalism.