For All the People : Uncovering the Hidden History of Cooperation, Cooperative Movements, and Communalism in America by Curl, John, author, Reed, Ishmael instant download

For All the People : Uncovering the Hidden History of Cooperation, Cooperative Movements, and Communalism in America by Curl, John, author, Reed, Ishmael instant download

1 online resource (609 pages), Seeking to reclaim a history that has remained largely ignored by historians, this dramatic and stirring account examines each of the definitive American cooperative movements for social change--farmer, union, consumer, and communalist--that have been all but erased from collective memory. With an expansive sweep and breathtaking detail, this scholarly yet eminently readable chronicle follows the American worker from the colonial workshop to the modern mass-assembly line, from the family farm to the corporate hierarchy, ultimately painting a vivid panorama of those who built the United States an, Cover; Copyright; Contents; Foreword; Preface; Introduction; PART I: COOPERATIVES & COOPERATIVE MOVEMENTS; 1. Early Cooperation in the Americas; 2. The Revolutionary Movements Begin; 3. The Movements Renewed & the Corporations' Rise; 4. The Aftermath of the Civil War; 5. The Knights of Labor & \"The Great Upheaval\"; 6. \"The Bloody Nineties\"; 7. \"The Progressive Era\": Wobblies & Radical Farmers; 8. World War I & the Conservative Reaction; 9. The Great Depression & the Conservative Advance; 10. Case Study: The Berkeley Co-op; 11. Cooperatives & Counterculture: The 1960s & '70s Part I, 12. Case Studies: Bay Warehouse & Heartwood13. Cooperatives in the Mainstream: The 1960s & '70s Part II; 14. Surviving: From the 1980s through the Millennium; Illustrations; PART II: COMMUNALISM; 15. Cooperatives & Communalism; 16. The Early Communalist Movements; 17. Communalism in the 20th Century; 18. Spiritual Communalism; CONCLUSION; Cooperatives Today & Their Potential as a Strategy of Social Change; FOOD FOR PEOPLE, NOT FOR PROFIT; APPENDICES; 1: Listing of Some Unique Cooperatives Today; 2: International Documents on Cooperatives; Bibliographic Essay; Notes; Illustration Credits, Includes index, Print version record, Includes bibliographical references and index