Description: Practicing Cooperation : Mutual Aid Beyond Capitalism, Paperback by Zitcer, Andrew, ISBN 1517909805, ISBN-13 9781517909802, Like New Used, Free P&P in the UK A powerful new understanding of cooperation as an antidote to alienation and inequality From the crises of racial inequity and capitalism that inspired the Black Lives Matter movement and the Green New Deal to the coronavirus pandemic, stories of mutual aid have shown that, though cooperation is variegated and ever changing, it is also a form of economic solidarity that can help weather contemporary social and economic crises. Addressing this theme, Practicing Cooperation delivers a trenchant and timely argument that the way to a more just and equitable society lies in the widespread adoption of cooperative practices. But what renders cooperation ethical, effective, and sustainable? Providing a new conceptual framework for cooperation as a form of social practice, Practicing Cooperation describes and critiques three cooperatives: a pair of co-op grocers in Philadelphia, each adjusting to recent growth and renewal; a federation of two hundred low-cost community acupuncture clinics throughout the United States, banded together as a cooperative of practitioners and patients; and a collectively managed Philadelphia experimental dance company, founded in the early 1990s and still going strong. Through these case studies, Andrew Zitcer illuminates the range of activities that make contemporary cooperatives successful: dedicated practitioners, a commitment to inclusion, and ongoing critical reflection. In so doing he asserts that economic and social cooperation must be examined, critiqued, and implemented on multiple scales if it is to combat the pervasiveness of competitive individualism. Practicing Cooperation is grounded in the voices of practitioners and the result is a clear-eyed look at the lived experience of cooperators from different parts of the economy and a guid for people on the potential of this way of life for the pursuit of justice and fairness.
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Book Title: Practicing Cooperation : Mutual Aid Beyond Capitalism
Subject Area: Urban Planning
Item Height: 216 mm
Item Width: 140 mm
Series: Diverse Economies and Livable Worlds
Author: Andrew Zitcer
Publication Name: Practicing Cooperation: Mutual Aid Beyond Capitalism
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
Subject: Anthropology
Publication Year: 2021
Type: Textbook
Number of Pages: 272 Pages
