Solidarity Economy I: Building Alternatives for People and Planet

Table of Contents......Page 3
Acknowledgements......Page 7
Introduction......Page 9
Solidarity Economy Overview......Page 17
Crisis and Opportunity: The Emerging Solidarity Economy Movement, by Emily Kawano......Page 19
Solidarity Economy: Key Concepts and Issues, by Ethan Miller......Page 33
Solidarity Economics and Twenty-First Century Socialism in the Bolivarian Alliance: An Initial Approach, by Maribel Aponte-García......Page 51
Finance......Page 71
The Role of Finance in the Latest Capitalist Downturn, by Özgür Orhangazi and Ian J. Seda-Irizarry......Page 73
Complementary Currencies as a Method to Promote the Solidarity Economy, by ``Miguel'' Yasuyuki Hirota......Page 83
Credit Unions and the Solidarity Economy, by Cliff Rosenthal......Page 95
Box 1. Creating Common Good Banks: Democratic Economics for a Sustainable World, by William Spademan......Page 103
Production......Page 105
Labour Unions and the Solidarity Economy: The Quebec Experience, by Yvon Poirier......Page 107
Worker-Run U.S. Factories and Enterprises: The Example of Argentine Cooperatives, by Peter Ranis......Page 123
`One Worker, One Vote:' US Steelworkers to Experiment with Factory Ownership, Mondragon Style, by Carl Davidson......Page 133
Commons and Wealth......Page 139
What Does This Moment Require? Dispatches from Work on the Commons, by Alexa Bradley and Julie Ristau......Page 141
Reclaiming the Sabbath as a Vision of Solidarity Economics, by Barry G. Shelley......Page 147
What Is Productivity For?, by John de Graaf......Page 159
Community Land Trusts: Developing Permanently Affordable Housing, by John Emmeus Davis and Alice Stokes......Page 165
Environment......Page 177
We Belong with the Earth: An Integrative Vision from Bioregionalism, by Patrick Gibbs......Page 179
Taking Ownership of the Climate Crisis, by Jonathan Teller-Elsberg......Page 197
Other Worlds, by Beverly Bell, Neil Tangari, Shilpa Jain and rachel Wallis with the Other Worlds Collaborative......Page 209
The Concept of Living Well: Vivir Bien......Page 217
Box 2. A New Wind Blows in King Coal Country, by Jim Dee......Page 229
Food......Page 233
Protecting Local Food and Farms through Models of Shared Equity, by Rebecca Fletcher......Page 235
CEDESA, Women, and the Food Sovereignty Movement in Mexico, by Ann Ferguson......Page 249
From Food Security to Food Sovereignty: Why Vermonters Need Food Sovereignty, by Richard and Angela Berkfield......Page 257
Research......Page 267
Extending the Bottom Line: What Worker Co-ops In Argentina can Teach us About Sustainability, by Annie McShiras......Page 269
Lessons and Opportunities from Canada's Social Economy Research Program, by Rupert Downing......Page 285
Research on the Economic Impact of Cooperatives: Phase I Results, by Lynn Pitman......Page 295
Box 3. Community Economies Collective: Three Members™ Research in the Solidarity Economy, by Janelle Cornwell, Ted White, Abby Templer and Leo Hwang-Carlos......Page 303
Movement Building......Page 307
Women, Feminism, and the Solidarity Economy, by Julie Matthaei......Page 309
Organizing Against the Economic Crisis by Creating a Bank Tenant Association, City Life/Vida Urbana, by Steve Meacham......Page 321
Viral Spiral: How the Commoners Built a Digital Republic of Their Own, by David Bollier......Page 333
Policy and the State......Page 347
The Solidarity Economy, State Organization and Political Power, by Nancy Neamtan......Page 349
Reimagining Society, by Julio Rafael Chavez......Page 359