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.