- Publisher: PM Press
- Release Date: Sep 1, 2009
- ISBN: 9781604860726
For All the People: Uncovering the Hidden History of Cooperation, Cooperative Movements, and Communa [Paperback]
Seeking to reclaim a history that has remained largely ignored by most 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. Focusing far beyond one particular era, organization, leader, or form of cooperation, the expansive analysis documents the multigenerational struggle of the American working people for social justice. With an expansive sweep and breathtaking detail, the chronicle considers Native American times and follows the American worker from the colonial workshop to the modern mass-assembly line, ultimately painting a vivid panorama of those who built the United States and those who will shape its future.
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For All the People: Uncovering the Hidden History of Cooperation, Cooperative Movements, and Communa
Though his hair has turned white, John Curl's passion burns undiminished by the passage of nearly seven decades. "We can't create a utopia," he says. "But we can restructure the world so that competition and repression aren't the bases on which we build our society." While he's well-known as a master woodworker,...
For All the People: Uncovering the Hidden History of Cooperation, Cooperative Movements, and Communa
Curl’s history of cooperative and communal movements in America is set against the backdrop of one overpowering trend: the transition from an almost completely self-employed work force at the time of Independence, to a present-day labor market in which self-employed workers are almost as much of an anomaly as...
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