Political Solidarity
Author: Sally J. Scholz
Publisher: Penn State Press
Published: 2010-11-01
Total Pages: 298
ISBN-13: 0271047216
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Design and Solidarity
Author: Rafi Segal
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Published: 2023-02-28
Total Pages: 233
ISBN-13: 0231555342
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn times of crisis, mutual aid becomes paramount. Even before the COVID-19 pandemic, new forms of sharing had gained momentum to redress precarity and stark economic inequality. Today, a diverse array of mutualistic organizations seek to fundamentally restructure housing, care, labor, food, and more. Yet design, art, and architecture play a key role in shaping these initiatives, fulfilling their promise of solidarity, and ensuring that these values endure. In this book, artist Marisa Morán Jahn and architect Rafi Segal converse about the transformative potential of mutualism and design with leading thinkers and practitioners: Mercedes Bidart, Arturo Escobar, Michael Hardt, Greg Lindsay, Jessica Gordon Nembhard, Ai-jen Poo, and Trebor Scholz. Together, they consider how design inspires, invigorates, and sustains contemporary forms of mutualism—including platform cooperatives, digital-first communities, emerging currencies, mutual aid, care networks, social-change movements, and more. From these dialogues emerge powerful visions of futures guided by communal self-determination and collective well-being.
From Solidarity to Sellout
Author: Tadeusz Kowalik
Publisher: NYU Press
Published: 2012
Total Pages: 368
ISBN-13: 1583672982
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn the 1980s and 90s, renowned Polish economist Tadeusz Kowalik played a leading role in the Solidarity movement, struggling alongside workers for an alternative to "really-existing socialism" that was cooperative and controlled by the workers themselves. In the ensuing two decades, "really-existing" socialism has collapsed, capitalism has been restored, and Poland is now among the most unequal countries in the world. Kowalik asks, how could this happen in a country that once had the largest and most militant labor movement in Europe? This book takes readers inside the debates within Solidar
Solidarity in Strategy
Author: Lyn Spillman
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 2012-08-30
Total Pages: 532
ISBN-13: 0226769569
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPopular conceptions hold that capitalism is driven almost entirely by the pursuit of profit and self-interest. Challenging that assumption, this major new study of American business associations shows how market and non-market relations are actually profoundly entwined at the heart of capitalism. In Solidarity in Strategy, Lyn Spillman draws on rich documentary archives and a comprehensive data set of more than four thousand trade associations from diverse and obscure corners of commercial life to reveal a busy and often surprising arena of American economic activity. From the Intelligent Transportation Society to the American Gem Trade Association, Spillman explains how business associations are more collegial than cutthroat, and how they make capitalist action meaningful not only by developing shared ideas about collective interests but also by articulating a disinterested solidarity that transcends those interests. Deeply grounded in both economic and cultural sociology, Solidarity in Strategy provides rich, lively, and often surprising insights into the world of business, and leads us to question some of our most fundamental assumptions about economic life and how cultural context influences economic.
Solidarity Economics
Author: Manuel Pastor
Publisher: Polity
Published: 2021-10-25
Total Pages: 208
ISBN-13: 9781509544073
DOWNLOAD EBOOKTraditional economics is built on the assumption of self-interested individuals seeking to maximize personal gain. This is far from the whole story, however: sharing, caring and a desire to uphold the collective good are also powerful individual motives. In a world wracked by inequality, social divisions, and ecological destruction, can we build an alternative economics based on our mutual co-operation? In this book Chris Benner and Manuel Pastor invite us to imagine and create a new sort of solidarity economics – an approach grounded in our instincts for connection and community – and in so doing, actually build a more robust, sustainable, and equitable economy. They argue that our current economy is already deeply dependent on mutuality, but that the inequality and fragmentation created by the status quo undermines this mutuality and with it our economic wellbeing. They outline the theoretical framing, policy agenda, and social movements we need to revive solidarity and apply it to whole societies. Solidarity Economics is an essential read for anyone who longs for an economy that can generate prosperity, provide for all, and preserve the planet.
Solidarity
Author: Hauke Brunkhorst
Publisher: MIT Press
Published: 2005
Total Pages: 300
ISBN-13: 9780262025829
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA political sociologist examines the concept of universal, egalitarian citizenship and assesses the prospects for developing democratic solidarity at the global level.
Pandemic Solidarity
Author: Marina Sitrin
Publisher: Vagabonds
Published: 2020
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780745343167
DOWNLOAD EBOOKCollects first-hand experiences from around the world of people creating their own networks of solidarity and mutual aid in the time of Covid-19.
The Politics of Social Solidarity
Author: Peter Baldwin
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1990
Total Pages: 374
ISBN-13: 9780521428934
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBy analyzing the competing concerns of different social "actors" behind the evolution of social policy, this study explains why some nations had an easy time in developing a welfare state while others fought long entrenched battles.
In Solidarity
Author: Mary Kandiuk
Publisher:
Published: 2014
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781936117628
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"Provides a historical and current perspective regarding the unionization of academic librarians, an exploration of some of the major labour issues affecting academic librarians in a certified and non-certified union context, as well as case studies relating to the unionization of academic librarians at selected institutions in Canada"--
Spaces of Conflict, Sounds of Solidarity
Author: Gaye Theresa Johnson
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Published: 2013-02-15
Total Pages: 262
ISBN-13: 0520275284
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn Spaces of Conflict, Sounds of Solidarity, Gaye Theresa Johnson examines interracial anti-racist alliances, divisions among aggrieved minority communities, and the cultural expressions and spatial politics that emerge from the mutual struggles of Blacks and Chicanos in Los Angeles from the 1940s to the present. Johnson argues that struggles waged in response to institutional and social repression have created both moments and movements in which Blacks and Chicanos have unmasked power imbalances, sought recognition, and forged solidarities by embracing the strategies, cultures, and politics of each others' experiences. At the center of this study is the theory of spatial entitlement: the spatial strategies and vernaculars utilized by working class youth to resist the demarcations of race and class that emerged in the postwar era. In this important new book, Johnson reveals how racial alliances and antagonisms between Blacks and Chicanos in L.A. had spatial as well as racial dimensions.
