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Ours to Hack and to Own: The Rise of Platform Cooperativism. A New Vision for the Future Of Work and a Fairer Internet.Edited by Trebor Scholz and Nathan SchneiderJan 2017non-fictionReal democracy and the Internet are not mutually exclusive.

Here, for the first time in one volume, are some of the most cogent thinkers and doers on the subject of the cooptation of the Internet, and how we can resist and reverse the process. The activists who have put together Ours to Hack and to Own argue for a new kind of online economy: platform cooperativism, which combines the rich heritage of cooperatives with the promise of 21st-century technologies, free from monopoly, exploitation, and surveillance.		1/15/2018Matt NoyesI recently read this, but it would be interesting to read it with people much more knowledgeable than myself.
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Throwing Rocks at the Google Bus: How Growth Became the Enemy of ProsperityDouglas Rushkoffnon-fictionIn this groundbreaking book, acclaimed media scholar and author Douglas Rushkoff tells us how to combine the best of human nature with the best of modern technology. Tying together disparate threads—big data, the rise of robots and AI, the increasing participation of algorithms in stock market trading, the gig economy, the collapse of the eurozone—Rushkoff provides a critical vocabulary for our economic moment and a nuanced portrait of humans and commerce at a critical crossroads.1/15/2018Matt NoyesInterested in reading this with this group
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Values at Work Employee Participation Meets Market Pressure at MondragonGeorge Cheney1999non-fictionExcellent short study of the Mondragon Corporation with a focus on participation and democracy.1/15/2018Matt NoyesI think this is one of the best introductions to Mondragon and one of its key challenges
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Cradle to Cradle: Remaking the Way We Make ThingsMichael Braungart, William McDonough2002non-fictionFrom Wikipedia: ".. calls for a radical change in industry: a switch from a cradle-to-grave pattern to a cradle-to-cradle pattern. (...)The book discourages downcycling, but rather encourages the manufacture of products with the goal of upcycling in mind."1/15/2018@eloquenceA co-operative economic approach needs to incorporate the best available thinking on sustainability. This is an influential book I haven't read and would enjoy reading with the group.–@eloquence
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The Resilience Imperative: Cooperative Transitions to a Steady-State EconomyMichael Lewis, Patrick Conaty2012non-fictionFrom book blurb: "We find ourselves between a rock and a hot place—compelled by the intertwined forces of peak oil and climate change to reinvent our economic life at a much more local and regional scale. The Resilience Imperative argues for a major SEE (social, ecological, economic) change as a prerequisite for replacing the paradigm of limitless economic growth with a more decentralized, cooperative, steady-state economy."1/15/2018@eloquence400 pages. Based on summary & limited number of reviews, it sounds like a solid empirically backed case for cooperative approaches.–@eloquence
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Revolution in Rojava: Democratic Autonomy and Women's Liberation in the Syrian KurdistanMichael Knapp, Ercan Ayboga, Anja FlachNovember 2016non-fictionFrom book blurb: "Revolution in Rojava tells the story of Rojava's groundbreaking experiment in what they call democratic confederalism, a communally organized democracy that is fiercely anti-capitalist and committed to female equality, while rejecting reactionary nationalist ideologies. Rooted in the ideas of imprisoned Kurdish leader Abdullah Ocalan, the system is built on effective gender quotas, bottom-up democratic structures, far-sighted ecological policies, and a powerful militancy that has allowed the region to keep ISIS at bay."1/15/2018@eloquenceWe may want to accompany this with some critical reading, but the Rojava experiment seems well worth studying.–@eloquence
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Deep Economy: The Wealth of Communities and the Durable FutureBill McKibben2007non-fictionFrom Wikipedia: "... promote[s] sustainable economy in close-knit communities. These include regions that generate their own food, their own energy, their own culture, and their own entertainment. McKibben (...) was asked what a 'deep economy' was. He defined it as one that 'cares less about quantity than about quality; that takes as its goal the production of human satisfaction as much as surplus material; that is focused on the idea that it might endure and considers durability at least as important as increases in size.'"1/15/2018@eloquenceI'm drawn to this book by the focus on community, which intuitively seems essential to me for any cooperative economic approach.–@eloquence
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Rules for Radicals: A Progmatic Primer for Realistic RadicalsSaul Alinsky1971non-fictionFrom Wikipedia: "Divided into ten chapters, Rules for Radicals provides 10 lessons on how a community organizer can accomplish the goal of successfully uniting people into an active grassroots organization with the power to effect change on a variety of issues"1/17/2018
@gilscottfitzgerald
An old book but I think it has important information
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The Cooperative SocietyE.G.Nadeau & Luc Nadeau2016non-fictionFrom the project website: "The Cooperative Society Project is a nonprofit initiative begun in 2015. The Project has two primary goals: (1)To analyze the hypothesis that humans may be on the threshold of a new historical stage: one characterized by cooperation, democracy, the equitable distribution of resources, and a sustainable relationship with nature. (2)To make recommendations for how we can increase the likelihood of moving toward a more cooperative society during the next several decades. The means for carrying out these goals are through a book, website, newsletters, videos, articles, and social media. "1/18/2018@gabrielaOn my reading list; open access- http://www.thecooperativesociety.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/The-Cooperative-Society.pdf
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Crusade: The Fight for Economic Democracy in North America, 1921-1945Roy F. Bergengren1952non-fictionMemoirs of Roy F. Bergengren, who led the field organizing campaign to obtain credit union enabling legislation, and organize thousands of credit unions, from the 1920s-1940s. Interesting view into the experience of an early-stage, rapidly expanding co-op sector.1/18/2018Matt CroppGood front-line organzier first-person narrative of the formative years of US credit unionism.
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One Path to co-operative studies: A selection of papers and presentationsIan MacPherson2007non-fictionOne can approach the study of co-operatives and the co-operative movement from many disciplinary and experiential directions. The essays in this book reflect the journey of one Canadian activist and researcher. It includes some essays from the beginning of his career as an historian, others that demonstrate how and why he became devoted to the field of Co-operative Studies. Though still believing he is fundamentally an historian, he came to recognize, through involvement as an elected person with several coops and community organizations and through discussions with researchers from other disciplines, that a single-discipline approach to understanding the co-operative movement is woefully inadequate for the academy – and co-operators. He now holds the view that this is a main reason why the movement has been poorly understood and under appreciated. He believes that the complexities and possibilities of the movement can only be fully understood by creating a truly interdisciplinary and international approach. The collection of articles suggest how he reached that conclusion.1/19/2018Matt CroppFree PDF here: https://dspace.library.uvic.ca/handle/1828/8297
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The Co-operative Movement in Great BritainBeatrice Webb1891non-fictionCooperative Movement in Great Britain' is a fascinating work on social history and industry. Beatrice Potter Webb was born in Gloucester, England in 1858. Both her mother and brother died early in her childhood leaving her to be raised by her father, Richard Potter. He was a successful businessman with large railroad interests and many influential friends in politics and industry whose company the young Beatrice would become accustomed to. Upon reaching adulthood, Potter moved to London and helped her cousin, Charles, a social reformer, research his book The Life and Labour of the People in London. It was during this time that she was introduced to Sidney James Webb, who later became her husband and collaborator. The Webb's, together, wrote eleven volumes of work which arguably shaped the way subsequent scholars thought about sociology. They also collaborated on more than 100 books and articles on the conditions of factory workers, and the economic history of Britain, among other subjects.1/20/2018Matt CroppSource of the term "co-operative federalism," which was one side of a debate w/i the co-op movement in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. https://archive.org/details/cu31924030083921
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Property and Contract in Economics: The Case for Economic DemocracyDavid Ellerman1993non-fictionThis book argues that the recently deceased Capitalism-Socialism debate was wrong-headed from the beginning - like a 'debate' over private or public ownership of slaves. The question was not private or public slavery, but slavery versus self-ownership. Similarly, this book argues that the question is not whether people should be private employees (capitalism) or public employees (socialism) but whether people should be hired or rented as employees at all versus always being jointly self-employed as employee-owned companies. Being a genuine work of political economy, the book re-examines the basic principles of private property and contract to obtain results at odds with the employer-employee relation and in favour of universal self-employment or economic democracy. Joint self-employment in the firm is the economic version of joint self-determination or political democracy in society. Private property should be based on people getting the fruits of their labor, but that only happens under joint self-employment. Market contracts should only apply to what can be transferred, but a person's labor is not really transferable (as we easily recognize for hired criminals). This book traces these ideas - the labor theory of property and the notion of inalienable rights - from ancient Stoics through the Reformation and Enlightenment, and restates the ideas in modern terms with critical applications to economic theory.1/21/2018Matt Cropp
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Design for the Real World: Human Ecology and Social ChangeV. Papanek2005 (1972)non-fictionA fundamental book about how the (poor and shortsighted) design choices made at the industrial level affect both our society and the world we live in.02/05/2018@antanicus
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Self Management: Economic Liberation of ManJaroslav Vanek1975non-fiction"Is an answer to our industrial problems to encourage workers' control and will this have a liberatign effect on their attitude to work? In this age of increasingly depersonalized business enterprises, the cry of workers for more control over their destiny has been increasing. This selection of readings examines one way out."2/8/2018Matt CroppA classic that inspired much of the modern worker co-op organizing work in the West.
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Planning DemocracyJess Gilbert2015non-fictionCan leaders foment democracy - not just representation but participation by non-elites. "Late in the 1930s, the U.S. Department of Agriculture set up a national network of local organizations that joined farmers with public administrators, adult-educators, and social scientists. The aim was to localize and unify earlier New Deal programs concerning soil conservation, farm production control, tenure security, and other reforms2/11/2018Luke Opperman
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Thinking In Systems: A PrimerDonnella Meadows2008non-fictionshort introduction to systems thinking, why systems surprise us, and why systems thinking is also no silver bullet for control of the complex systems that make up our world.2/11/2018Luke OppermanGreat introduction to complex systems by one of the authors of Limits to Growth. Two final chapters are available online: http://donellameadows.org/dancing-with-systems/ http://donellameadows.org/archives/leverage-points-places-to-intervene-in-a-system/
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Greenbelt, Maryland: A Living Legacy of the New DealCathy Knepper2001non-fiction"Built in the 1930s on worn-out tobacco land between Baltimore and Washington, D.C., the planned community of Greenbelt, Maryland, was designed to provide homes for low-income families as well as jobs for its builders. In keeping with the spirit of the New Deal, the physical design of the town contributed to cooperation among its residents, and the government further encouraged cooperation by helping residents form business cooperatives and social organizations. ... comprehensive look at this important social experiment. Knepper describes the origins of Greenbelt, the ideology of its founders, and their struggle to create a cooperative planned community in the capitalist United States."2/11/2018Luke OppermanA history of one of the New Deal's most successful cooperative towns.
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Capital as Power: A Study of Order and CreorderJonathan Nitzan & Shimshon Bichler2009non-fictionConventional theories of capitalism are mired in a deep crisis: after centuries of debate, they are still unable to tell us what capital is. Liberals and Marxists both think of capital as an ‘economic’ entity that they count in universal units of ‘utils’ or ‘abstract labour’, respectively. But these units are totally fictitious. Nobody has ever been able to observe or measure them, and for a good reason: they don’t exist. Since liberalism and Marxism depend on these non-existing units, their theories hang in suspension. They cannot explain the process that matters most – the accumulation of capital. This book offers a radical alternative. According to the authors, capital is not a narrow economic entity, but a symbolic quantification of power. It has little to do with utility or abstract labour, and it extends far beyond machines and production lines. Capital, the authors claim, represents the organized power of dominant capital groups to reshape – or creorder – their society. Written in simple language, accessible to lay readers and experts alike, the book develops a novel political economy. It takes the reader through the history, assumptions and limitations of mainstream economics and its associated theories of politics. It examines the evolution of Marxist thinking on accumulation and the state. And it articulates an innovative theory of ‘capital as power’ and a new history of the ‘capitalist mode of power’.2/24/2018Matt CroppReading it and would love to discuss the implications for co-op ownership.
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We the People: Connecting to a Deeper DemocracyJohn Buck Jr & Sharon Villines2007non-fictionWe the People describes a new method of governing ourselves that creates more inclusive and efficient organizations. The United States Declaration of Independence asserted that all human beings are created equally and endowed by society with the unquestionable rights of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. In practice, however, these rights are often limited to the majority, the rich, or the property owners. Sociocracy ensures these rights to everyone, and in the process, makes profit-making businesses more profitable and non-profit organizations more effective. Using consent and collaboration as a foundaation for decision-making and communications, it builds a strong governance structure that extends from the mailroom to the boardroom and from the client to the funders. Using the new sciences of cybernetics, systems thinkng, and complexity theory, it creates organizations that are as powerful, self-organizing, and self-correcting as the natural world.3/3/2018Luke Opperman
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Lending Power: How Self-Help Credit Union Turned Small-Time Loans into Big-Time Change
Howard E. Covington Jr.
2017non-fictionEstablished by Martin Eakes and Bonnie Wright in North Carolina in 1980, the nonprofit Center for Community Self-Help has grown from an innovative financial institution dedicated to civil rights into the nation's largest home lender to low- and moderate-income borrowers. Self-Help's first capital campaign—a bake sale that raised a meager seventy-seven dollars for a credit union—may not have done much to fulfill the organization's early goals of promoting worker-owned businesses, but it was a crucial first step toward wielding inclusive lending as a weapon for economic justice.

In Lending Power journalist and historian Howard E. Covington Jr. narrates the compelling story of Self-Help's founders and coworkers as they built a progressive and community-oriented financial institution. First established to assist workers displaced by closed furniture and textile mills, Self-Help created a credit union that expanded into providing home loans for those on the margins of the financial market, especially people of color and single mothers.

Using its own lending record, Self-Help convinced commercial banks to follow suit, extending its influence well beyond North Carolina. In 1999 its efforts led to the first state law against predatory lending. A decade later, as the Great Recession ravaged the nation's economy, its legislative victories helped influence the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act and the formation of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. Self-Help also created a federally chartered credit union to expand to California and later to Illinois and Florida, where it assisted ailing community-based credit unions and financial institutions.

Throughout its history, Self-Help has never wavered from its mission to use Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s vision of justice to extend economic opportunity to the nation's unbanked and underserved citizens. With nearly two billion dollars in assets, Self-Help also shows that such a model for nonprofits can be financially successful while serving the greater good. At a time when calls for economic justice are growing ever louder, Lending Power shows how hard-working and dedicated people can help improve their communities.		3/5/2018Matt Cropp
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Platform CapitalismNick Srnicek2016Non-fictionThis book critically examines these new business forms, tracing their genesis from the long downturn of the 1970s to the boom and bust of the 1990s and the aftershocks of the 2008 crisis. It shows how the fundamental foundations of the economy are rapidly being carved up among a small number of monopolistic platforms, and how the platform introduces new tendencies within capitalism that pose significant challenges to any vision of a post-capitalist future. This book will be essential reading for anyone who wants to understand how the most powerful tech companies of our time are transforming the global economy."3/15/2018@matt_noyesinteresting contrast helpful to thinking about platform cooperativism
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Minding Our Own Business: Community, Consumers, and CooperationJennifer E. Tammi2012Non-fictionPhD dissertation on the founding, rise, and decline of the Cooperative League of the United States in the early-mid 20th century. Available here: https://academiccommons.columbia.edu/download/fedora_content/download/ac:147711/CONTENT/Tammi_columbia_0054D_10840.pdf5/1/2018@mattcroppContains some good strategic insights drawn from that period of history that contemporary cooperators would benefit from knowing about.
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Sharing Cities: Activating the Urban CommonsShareable, Editor 2018NonfictionDESCRIPTION "Sharing Cities: Activating the Urban Commons" showcases over a hundred sharing-related case studies and model policies from more than 80 cities in 35 countries. It both witnesses a growing global movement and serves as a practical reference guide for community-based solutions to urgent challenges faced by cities everywhere. This book is a call to action meant to inspire readers with ideas, raise awareness of the impressive range of local efforts, and strengthen the sharing movement worldwide. "Sharing Cities" shows that not only is another world possible, but that much of it is already here.5/3/2018Caitlin Waddick
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Co-operatives in a Post-Growth Era: Creating Co-operative Economicsby Sonja Novkovic (Editor), Tom Webb (Editor)2014NonfictionFor the past three decades, neoclassical doctrine has dominated economic theory and policy. The balance of power has shifted to protect private interests, resulting in unprecedented damage to the environment and society, with no solution in sight as more austerity and less government continues to be posited as the answer to the oncoming waves of crisis.

It doesn't have to be this way. Featuring a remarkable roster of internationally renowned critical thinkers, Co-operatives in a Post-Growth Era presents a feasible alternative for a more environmentally sustainable and equitable economic system - specifically, the co-operative business model. With more than 100 million people working in co-operatives and more than a billion members around the world, the time has never been better for co-operatives everywhere to recognise their potential to change the economic landscape.

An essential book for students, policymakers and concerned citizens looking for a practical way to change the current stagnant economic paradigm.		5/5/2018@emi
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A Consensus Handbook, Co-operative decision-making for activists, co-ops and communitiesby Max Hertzberg, Rebecca Smith, Rhiannon Westphal2013GuidePractical guidance on how to facilitate the consensus decision making process, looking at common situations and explaining the skills and tools your group can use to ease the path to a decision. The book covers techniques for decision-making in small and large groups as well as virtual meetings.

We've also included material on some of the pitfalls and problems you and your group may face - and have provided some suggestions of how to deal with them!

· Spirit and philosophy of consensus decision making
· Skills and facilitation tools
· Small or large groups, face to face or virtual meetings
· Troubleshoot your consensus process

Whether you’re new to consensus or are experienced; whether you think it’s the best way to make decisions or are struggling to make it work: this book is for you!		5/5/2018@emi
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Change Here Now: Permaculture Solutins for Personal and Community TransformationAdam Brock2017Social Science/Sustanabilith and Green Design/Social JusticeWhat if the solutions to a thriving, just society were right in front of us? Award-winning social entrepreneur and permaculturalist Adam Brock draws from ecology, sociology, community economics, social justice, and indigenous practices the world over to present more than eighty proven solutions for building healthy communities. Using the "pattern language" framework developed by architect Christopher Alexander and his colleagues in the 1970s, Brock outlines strategies for redesigning our social and economic systems to mimic nature's resilience and abundance.
Practical, innovative, and visually compelling, this book presents actionable and easy-to-understand tools for a compassionate and methodical approach to building better communities. Sidebars and diagrams supplement the text, while case studies illustrate endeavors such as starting a business, launching a social change project, or setting personal goals. Brock suggests ways to engage disempowered communities in a meaningful and authentic way, and draws on eight years of in-depth research and investigation to demonstrate what makes communities work at the most fundamental level. Anyone looking for concrete solutions to many of the social and economic ills that plague our current society will discover a rich resource for growth and change.		5/7/2018Caitlin Waddick How do we create flexible social structures? How do we analyze social structures? How do we come up with an abundance of solutions? This book has short chapters and is easy to read.
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Emergent Strategy: Shaping Change, Changing Worlds Adrienne Maree Brown2017Self-Help/Social ScienceInspired by Octavia Butler's explorations of our human relationship to change, Emergent Strategy is radical self-help, society-help, and planet-help designed to shape the futures we want to live. Change is constant. The world is in a continual state of flux. It is a stream of ever-mutating, emergent patterns. Rather than steel ourselves against such change, this book invites us to feel, map, assess, and learn from the swirling patterns around us in order to better understand and influence them as they happen. This is a resolutely materialist “spirituality” based equally on science and science fiction, a visionary incantation to transform that which ultimately transforms us.

“Necessary, vital, and timely.” —Ayana Jamieson, Octavia E. Butler Legacy Network

“Adrienne leads us on a passionate, purposeful, intimate ride into this Universe where relationships spawn new possibilities. Her years of dedication to facilitating change by partnering with life invite us to also join with life to create the changes so desperately needed now.” —Margaret Wheatley, author of Leadership and the New Science

“Adrienne has challenged me, enlightened me and reminded me that transformation happens in our natural world every day and we can borrow from it strategies to transform ourselves, our organizations, and our society.” —Denise Perry, Black Organizing for Leadership and Dignity (BOLD)

“A word/heart sojourn through the hard questions.” — Makani Themba, facilitator for the Movement for Black Lives

“Emergent Strategy…reminds us, directly and by example, that wonder (which at its heart is love), is the foundation of our ability to shape change and create the world we want.” —Alta Starr, leadership development trainer at Generative Somatics

“Drawing on sources as varied as poetry, science fiction, forests, ancestors, and a desired future, Emergent Strategy speaks with ease about what is hard and brings us into that ease without losing its way. Savor and enjoy!” —Elissa Perry, Management Assistance Group



adrienne maree brown, co-editor of Octavia’s Brood: Science Fiction from Social Justice Movements, is a social justice facilitator, healer, and doula living in Detroit.

5/7/2018Caitlin Waddick This author also co-edited _Octavia's Brood: Science Fiction from Social Justice Movements_ She lives in Detroit, Michigan. The book is published by an anarchist publishing house.
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Collective CourageJessica Gordon Nembhard2014Non-fictionJessica Gordon Nembhard’s study of Black cooperatives opens a door on a critical aspect of Black history in general and cooperative history in particular—a door very hard to open, given the challenges and difficulties with records and sources. What she has found behind the door is subjected to inspiring yet tough-minded analysis. The long trajectory of development Gordon Nembhard describes and the direction she illuminates offer profoundly important guidance as we enter an era of increasingly difficult economic and political challenges.8/3/2018@neil
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Everything for EveryoneNathan Schneider9/2018non-fiction
"an historical and contemporary tour of the radical potential of cooperative economics to disrupt capitalism as we know it." R.D.G. Kelley
10/23/2018Matt Noyesreading group plus Social.Coop Happy Hour?
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Courage Before Hope: A Proposal to Weave Emotional and Economic Microsolidarity -- Or: What To Do in the Last Decade of the AnthropoceneRichard Dennis Bartlett12/2018non-fiction, essaya 4 part series about ‘microsolidarity’: a plan for people supporting each other to do more meaningful work. https://medium.com/enspiral-tales/courage-before-hope-a-proposal-to-weave-emotional-and-economic-microsolidarity-87bc81372a09?fbclid=IwAR1pktJlFRIqHZwFeSGPz3yarwci_LeK3PQSqGnEbo6E5-9e9_fuBCU61ro12/5/2018Matt Noyes
reading group plus Social.Coop Happy Hour?
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The Conquest of BreadPeter Kropotkin1892non-fictionFrom Wikipedia: "Kropotkin constructs an argument for the common ownership of all
intellectual and useful property, due to the collective work that went
into creating it. In contrast to Marxism, Kropotkin doesn't argue that
the product of a worker's labor should belong to the worker. Instead,
Kropotkin asserts that every individual product is essentially the work
of everyone"		18/01/2018@antanicusTHE book about stateless societies :)
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The Ecology of LawF. Capra & U. Mattei2015non-fictionCapra and Mattei outline the basic concepts and
structures of a legal order consistent with the ecological principles
that sustain life on this planet. This is a profound and visionary
reconceptualization of the very foundations of the Western legal system,
a kind of Copernican revolution in the law, with profound implications
for the future of our planet.		18/01/2018@antanicusThis is an important book as it challenges the assumption that laws are to be mandated top-down, instead arguing in favor of a much more "cooperative-friendly" bottom-up approach.
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The Next Revolution
Popular Assemblies and the Promise of Direct Democracy		Murray Bookchin2014non-fictionFrom book blurb: The Next Revolution brings together Bookchin’s essays on freedom and direct democracy for the first time, offering a bold political vision that can move us from protest to social transformation. A pioneering voice in the ecology and anarchist movements, he is the author of The Ecology of Freedom and Post-Scarcity Anarchism among many other books.18/01/2018@neilBoth environmentally-minded and pro-technology approaches to anarchist-like decentralisation. Again I hope it will be hands-on and practical. I understand that Bookchin's Communalism inspired Abdullah Ocalan's ideas around democratic confederalism and hence current politics in Rojava.
https://www.versobooks.com/books/1777-the-next-revolution
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Humanizing the Economy - Co-operatives in the Age of CapitalJohn Restakis2010non-fictionAt the close of the twentieth century, corporate capitalism extended its reach over the globe. While its defenders argue that globalization is the only way forward for modern, democratic societies, the spread of this system is failing to meet even the most basic needs of billions of individuals around the world. Moreover, the entrenchment of this free market system is undermining the foundations of healthy societies, caring communities, and personal wellbeing.

Humanizing the Economy shows how co-operative models for economicand social development can create a more equitable, just, and humane future. With over 800 million members in 85 countries and a long history linking economics to social values, the co-operative movement is the most powerfulgrassroots movement in the world. Its future as an alternative to corporate capitalism is explored through a wide range of real-world examples including:

Emilia RomagnaÂ’s co-operative economy in Northern Italy
ArgentinaÂ’s recovered factory movement
JapanÂ’s consumer and health co-operatives
Highlighting the hopes and struggles of everyday people seeking to make their world a better place, Humanizing the Economy is essential reading for anyone who cares about the reform of economics, globalization, and social justice.		24/2/2018@leogaggl
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