The Routledge companion to alternative organization
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The Routledge companion to alternative organization
（Routledge companions）（Routledge companions in business, management and accounting）
Routledge, 2018, c2014
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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Description
Despite the Great Recession, slightly different forms of global capitalism are still portrayed as the only game in town by the vast majority of people in power in the world today. Unbridled growth, trade liberalisation, and competition are advocated as the only or best ways of organizing the contemporary world. Unemployment, yawning gaps between rich and poor, political disengagement, and environmental devastation are too often seen as acceptable 'side effects' of the dominance of neo-liberalism.
But the reality is that capitalism has always been contested and that people have created many other ways of providing for themselves. This book explores economic and organizational possibilities which extend far beyond the narrow imagination of economists and management theorists. Chapters on co-operatives, community currencies, the transition movement, scrounging, co-housing and much more paints a rich picture of the ways in which another word is not only possible, but already taking shape. The aim of this companion is to move beyond complaining about the present and into exploring this diversity of organisational possibilities. Our starting point is a critical analysis of contemporary global capitalism is merely the opening for thinking about organizing as a form of politics by other means, and one that can be driven by the values of solidarity, freedom and responsibility.
This comprehensive companion with an international cast of contributors gives voice to forms of organizing which remain unrepresented or marginalised in organizational studies and conventional politics, yet which offer more promising grounds for social and environmental justice. It is a valuable resource for students, activists and researchers interested in alternative approaches to economy and society in a variety of disciplinary and interdisciplinary fields.
Table of Contents
Part I: Introduction 1. Advanced Capitalism: Its Promise and Failings 2. Alternatives: Past, Present and Prospective 3. Imagining Alternatives Part II: Work and Labour 4. Between Class and the Market: Self-Management in theory and in the Practice of Worker-Recuperated Enterprises in Argentina 5. Worker-Owned-and-Governed Cooperatives and the Wider Cooperative Movement: Challenges and Opportunities within and beyond the Global Economic Crisis 6. Communes and Intentional Communities 7. Non-Commodified Labour 8. Family and Household Reproduction 9. Immigrants and Immigration 10. Toward a Politics of Anonymity: Algorithmic Actors in the Constitution of Collective Agency and the Implications for Global Economic Justice Movements Part III: Exchange and Consumption 11. Fair Trade: Social Justice and Production Alternatives 12. Complementary Currencies as Slternative Organisational Forms 13. Gifts, Gifting and Gift Economies - On Challenging Capitalism with Blood, Plunder and Necklaces 14. Voluntary Simplicity 15. The Bioregional Economy: Reclaiming our Local Land 16. Organizing Transition: Principles and Tensions in Eco-Localism Part IV: Resources17. Credit Unions18. Alternative and Social Accounting 19. The Commons 20. Scrounging and Reclaiming 21. Free and Open-Source Appropriate Technology 22. Education: By the People for the People 23. Social Movements and Global Governance 24. Horizons of Possibility: Challenge, Co-Optation and Transformation
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