Another Production Is Possible
Beyond the Capitalist Canon
Boaventura de Sousa Santos editor
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Verso Books
Published:17th Aug '07
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A meticulous examination of new forms of the conflict between capital and labor, and the emergence of new labor solidarities across the developing world
Examines alternative models to capitalist development through case studies of collective land management, cooperatives of garbage collectors and women's agricultural cooperatives. This book analyzes the changing capital-labor conflict of the past several years and the way labor solidarity is reconstituting itself under different forms.This is the second volume, after Democratizing Democracy, of the collection Reinventing Social Emancipation: Towards New Manifestoes.Here, the author examines alternative models to capitalist developmentthrough case studies of collective land management, cooperatives ofgarbage collectors and women's agricultural cooperatives. He alsoanalyzes the changing capital-labor conflict of the past two decadesand the way labor solidarity is reconstituting itself under new formsfrom Brazil to Mozambique and South Africa.
At last, someone is putting concrete analysis on 'counter-hegemonic globalization from the bottom up.' Boaventura de Sousa Santos has assembled social scientists from Latin America, Africa, and Asia to describe another kind of democracy, full of lessons for the benighted countries of the North, where it should be mandatory reading for serious people. -- Immanuel Wallerstein
In the 1980s Margaret Thatcher declared 'There is no alternative.' At the beginning of the 21st century the World Social Forum replied, 'Another World is Possible.' The project, Reinventing Social Emancipation, is a passionate and wide-ranging effort enriching our vision of that other world. -- Erik Olin Wright
ISBN: 9781844671489
Dimensions: 234mm x 155mm x 38mm
Weight: 781g
488 pages