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Author Curl, John.

Title For all the people : uncovering the hidden history of cooperation, cooperative movements, and communalism in America / John Curl.

Publication Info. Oakland, CA : PM Press, [2012]
©2012

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 Glastonbury, Welles-Turner Memorial Library - Adult Department  334.0973 CURL    Check Shelf
Edition Second edition.
Description 576 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages [469]-553) and index.
Contents Part I : Cooperatives & cooperative movements : Early cooperation in the Americas ; The revolutionary movements begin ; The movements renewed & the corporations' rise ; The aftermath of the Civil War ; The Knights of Labor & "The Great Upheaval" ; "The Bloody Nineties" ; "The Progressive Era": Wobblies & radical farmers ; World War I & the conservative reaction ; The Great Depression & the conservative advance ; Case study: the Berkeley Co-op ; Cooperatives & counterculture: The 1960s & '70s Part I ; Case studies: Bay Warehouse & Heartwood ; Cooperatives in the mainstream: The 1960s & '70s Part II ; Surviving: from the 1980s through the millennium -- Part II : Communalism : Cooperatives & communalism ; The early commmunalist movements ; Communalism in the 20th century ; Spiritual comunalism -- Conclusion : Cooperatives today & their potential as a strategy of social change -- Food for people, not for profit.
Subject Cooperation -- United States -- History.
Communal living -- United States -- History.
Collective settlements -- United States -- History.
ISBN 1604865822
9781604865820
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