The Practical Utopians

"Between 1865 and 1890, in the aftermath of the Civil War, virtually every important American labor reform organization was advocating "cooperation" over "competitive" capitalism and several thousand cooperatives opened for business during this era. The men and women who built cooperatives were practical reformers who established businesses to stabilize their work lives, families, and communities." "The Practical Utopians closely examines the experiences of working men and women as they built their cooperatives, contested the meanings of cooperation, and reconciled the realities of the marketplace with their various and often conflicting conceptions of democratic participation. Steve Leikin provides new theories and examples of the failures and successes of the cooperative movement, including the collapse of the Gilded Age's most powerful labor organization, the Knights of Labor, in the face of the expanding industrial economy."--BOOK JACKET.

שנה

2004

שפה

English

הוצאה

Wayne State University Press

מהדורות

1

עמודים

233

ISBN

9780814331286

מקור הנתונים: Wikidata