The Dictionary of Alternatives: Utopianism and Organization

Martin Parker, Valerie Fournier, Patrick Reedy

Zed Books, Apr 15, 2007 - Political Science - 338 pages

This dictionary provides ammunition for those who disagree with the early twentieth-first century orthodoxy that 'There is no alternative to free market liberalism and managerialism'. Using hundreds of entries and cross-references, it proves that there are many alternatives to the way that we currently organize ourselves. These alternatives could be expressed as fictional utopias, they could be excavated from the past, or they could be described in terms of the contemporary politics of anti-corporate protest, environmentalism, feminism and localism. Part reference work, part source book, and part polemic, this dictionary provides a rich understanding of the ways in which fiction, history and today's politics provide different ways of thinking about how we can and should organize for the coming century.

Contents

• ABBEY OFTHELEME I: 2
• ANABAPTISTS: 8
• APPROPRIATE TECHNOLOGY: 15
• AUTONOMIA: 21
• BLACK BLOC: 27
• BRETHREN OF THE FREE SPIRIT: 34
• CATHARS: 40
• DECROISSANCE DEGROWTH: 69
• DIRECT ACTION: 75
• ECOFEMINISM: 83
• EREWHON: 89
• CONTENTS: 91
• GANDHI: 111
• GRAMEEN BANK 1 17: 117
• HAYDEN DOLORES: 125
• INDYMEDIA INDEPENDENT MEDIA: 131
• ISLAND: 137
• KROPOTKIN PETER: 146
• MANAGEMENT: 168
• MARX KARL: 174
• MILLENARIANISM: 181
• NETWORK: 189
• NEW MODEL ARMY: 195
• OCEANA: 201
• PARADISE: 208
• PIRATE UTOPIA 2 I 2: 212
• PORT SUNLIGHT 2 1 8: 218
• QUAKERS: 224
• REPUBLICTHE: 230
• ROBINSON CRUSOE: 236
• SADE MARQUIS DE: 243
• SCOTT BADER COMMONWEALTH: 249
• SLOW FOOD: 255
• SOCIAL ECOLOGY: 261
• TERRORISM: 281
• TOWER COLLIERY: 287
• TWIN OAKS: 294
• VIA CAMPESINA: 302
• WELLS HERBERT GEORGE: 310
• WORKER SELFMANAGEMENT: 316
• Index: 327

About the author

Martin Parker is Professor of Organisation and Culture in the Management Centre at the University of Leicester.Valérie Fournier is Senior Lecturer in Organisation Studies in the Management Centre at the University of Leicester.Patrick Reedy lectures in organizational behaviour and human resource management at the Business School of the University of Newcastle upon Tyne.

Bibliographic information

• Title: The Dictionary of Alternatives: Utopianism and Organization
• Authors: Martin Parker, Valerie Fournier, Patrick Reedy
• Edition: reprint
• Publisher: Zed Books, 2007
• ISBN: 184277333X, 9781842773338
• Length: 338 pages
• Subjects: Political Science / Political Economy; Political Science / Political Ideologies / General; Political Science / Reference