ISBN:
9780415782265
,
9781135005399
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (XXIII, 384 pages)
,
Illustrationen
Edition:
Online-Ausg.
Series Statement:
Routledge companions in business, management and accounting
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als The Routledge companion to alternative organization
DDC:
302.3/5
Keywords:
Alternative Ökonomie
;
Soziale Bewegung
;
Nachhaltige Entwicklung
;
Organisation
;
Organisationsforschung
;
Welt
;
Electronic books
;
Aufsatzsammlung
;
Alternative Wirtschaft
;
Organisationssoziologie
;
Wirtschaftssoziologie
Abstract:
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 othe
Description / Table of Contents:
Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; List of figures; List of tables; Author biographies; Preface; SECTION 1 Introduction; 1 Advanced capitalism: its promise and failings; 2 Alternatives: past, present and prospective; 3 Imagining alternatives; SECTION 2 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 co-operatives and the wider co-operative movement: challenges and opportunities within and beyond the global economic crisis
Description / Table of Contents:
6 Communes and intentional communities7 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; SECTION 3 Exchange and consumption; 11 Fair Trade: social justice and production alternatives; 12 Complementary currencies; 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
Description / Table of Contents:
16 Organizing transition: principles and tensions in eco-localismSECTION 4 Resources; 17 Credit unions; 18 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; Index
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
