For All the People: Uncovering the Hidden History of Cooperation, Cooperative Movements, and Communalism in AmericaSeeking to reclaim a history that has remained largely ignored by 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. With an expansive sweep and breathtaking detail, this scholarly yet eminently readable chronicle follows the American worker from the colonial workshop to the modern mass-assembly line, from the family farm to the corporate hierarchy, ultimately painting a vivid panorama of those who built the United States and those who will shape its future. This second edition contains a new introduction by Ishmael Reed, a new preface by the author that discusses cooperatives in the Great Recession of 2008 and their future in the 21st century, and a new chapter on the role co-ops played in the food revolution of the 1970s. |
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Contents
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The Movements Renewed the Corporations Rise | 47 |
The Aftermath of the Civil War | 63 |
The Knights of Labor The Great Upheaval | 86 |
The Bloody Nineties | 111 |
The 1960s 70s Part II | 231 |
From the 1980s through the Millennium 242 Illustrations | 257 |
COMMUNALISM | 277 |
Cooperatives Communalism | 279 |
The Early Communalist Movements | 284 |
Communalism in the 20th Century | 312 |
Spiritual Communalism | 334 |
CONCLUSION Cooperatives Today Their Potential as a Strategy of Social Change | 346 |
Wobblies Radical Farmers | 124 |
World War I the Conservative Reaction 146 | 146 |
The Great Depression the Conservative Advance | 164 |
The Berkeley Coop | 192 |
The 1960s 70s Part I | 204 |
Bay Warehouse Heartwood 221 | 221 |
FOOD FOR PEOPLE NOT FOR PROFIT | 356 |
APPENDICES | 449 |
Bibliographic Essay | 469 |
Notes | 483 |
Illustration Credits | 554 |
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