Co-operatives
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From  Enclosures of Public Spaces and InfrastructureFrom: Think Like a Commoner |
The city is one of the most fiercely contested arenas for market enclosures. Public squares, parks, walkways, sports arenas and the very face and identity of a city are being taken over by a cozy … | David Bollier | 10 | 2014 | $1.00 Add |
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From  InterludeFrom: Grocery Story |
This chapter describes alternative, viable, models for grocery stores and the "food shed" of local retailers and growers in Nelson, BC, and Viroqua, Wisconsin. The grocery store chains … | John Steinman | 11 | 2019 | $1.10 Add |
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From  The Emilian Model and the Socialization of CapitalFrom: Humanizing the Economy |
The Rise of Regions The Emilian Model | John Restakis | 16 | 2010 | $1.60 Add |
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From Enclosures of Knowledge and CultureFrom: Think Like a Commoner |
Copyright and trademark law — with help from new types of “technological locks” that encrypt DVDs and ebooks — are privatizing more and more of our shared culture so that … | David Bollier | 14 | 2014 | $1.40 Add |
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From Enter the Co-opFrom: Grocery Story |
In this chapter the author describes the history of co-ops from 1761 in Scotland to the revival of community-owned grocery stores in the 1980s. The structure and types of co-ops, their … | John Steinman | 13 | 2019 | $1.30 Add |
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From Social Co-ops and Social CareFrom: Humanizing the Economy |
On Civil Society and the Social Economy On Reciprocity Social Co-operatives The Case for Co-op Approach to Social Care Beyond Defensiveness Creating a Social Marker | John Restakis | 32 | 2010 | $3.20 Add |
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From JapanFrom: Humanizing the Economy |
Product Labeling and Advocacy Workers’ Collective Movement Health and Happiness Elder Care | John Restakis | 21 | 2010 | $2.10 Add |
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From The Eclipsed History of the CommonsFrom: Think Like a Commoner |
One of the most insidious things about enclosures is how they eradicate the culture of commons and our memory of them. The old ways of doing things; the social practices that once bound a people … | David Bollier | 17 | 2014 | $1.70 Add |
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From The Food Co-op WavesFrom: Grocery Story |
This chapter describes Black American and working-class consumer co-ops founded in the 1930s Great Depression, many of which, resembling conventional grocery stores, are still in operation while … | John Steinman | 18 | 2019 | $1.80 Add |
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From Consumer Food Co-ops TodayFrom: Grocery Story |
The many facets and community-building features of consumer food co-ops today, from continuing and children’s education to community giving and non-profit arms are described. Also described … | John Steinman | 28 | 2019 | $2.80 Add |
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From The Daughters of KaliFrom: Humanizing the Economy |
Sonagchi The Stories A Terrible Reflection | John Restakis | 28 | 2010 | $2.80 Add |
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From Co-ops as Food Desert RemediationFrom: Grocery Story |
This chapter describes the way chain stores are reluctant to establish or to continue serving low-income neighbourhoods, forcing residents to live in "food deserts", a mile for more … | John Steinman | 14 | 2019 | $1.40 Add |
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From Fair Trade and the Empire of TeaFrom: Humanizing the Economy |
Fair Trade and Co-operation The Fair Trade Network Tea The Small Organic Farmers Association Fair Trade on the Ground The Seductions of Success Beyond Commodities – Going Global The Future … | John Restakis | 33 | 2010 | $3.30 Add |
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From The Rise of Digital CommonsFrom: Think Like a Commoner |
The World Wide Web has been an exciting arena for innovators, idealists and iconoclasts precisely because there are no legacy institutions to displace. Anyone is free to start something new. No … | David Bollier | 14 | 2014 | $1.40 Add |
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From Argentina: Occupy, Resist, ProduceFrom: Humanizing the Economy |
New World, Old Habits Occupy, Resist, Produce Zanon Co-op and Community Brukman An Awakening The Road Ahead | John Restakis | 30 | 2010 | $3.00 Add |
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From  Economic Democracy and Cooperative CapitalFrom: Resilience Imperative |
There are two kinds of freedom: “positive freedom,” which is “freedom to” — freedom to build toward the realization of a “cooperative commonwealth,” and … | Michael Lewis; Pat Conaty | 21 | 2012 | $2.10 Add |
