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Carregando... Mutualism: Building the Next Economy from the Ground Up (edição: 2021)de Sara Horowitz (Autor)
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Registre-se no LibraryThing tpara descobrir se gostará deste livro. Ainda não há conversas na Discussão sobre este livro. I am 100% on board with all of this (though I still can't find the courage to be a leader), and I loved the inclusion of Horowitz's own family history as union organizers. Unfortunately, I just found parts too dry, and I am still terrible at really understanding business and economics, so I found my mind wandering a lot. That said, I'm excited to continue to seek out more mutualist opportunities in my life. Extreme right wingers are more varied, sometimes it's about god, sometimes it's about freedom to shoot the burglar. With left wingers it's always the same - it's always unions. Whatever the book is about, the solution is unions. You know, the ones hiring gangsters and beating up strike breakers and forcing everyone to pay their dues or else. Those guys. Because the solution to exploitation by the employer is not legislation but a protection racket. The book itself is biographical self-aggrandising drivel. The author is very proud of starting some freelancer union, she repeats it more than a dozen times. Her union is special and it really listens to it's victims. It provides appropriate health cover for them, like acupuncture. She doesn't mention homeopathy but I'm sure there's cover for that too. sem resenhas | adicionar uma resenha
"The progressive twentieth century changed every facet of life for American workers--from how much life you could expect to have, to what you had the right to demand of it. But by 2027, a majority of American workers will go to work every day as a part of the gig economy, and without the traditional employer-sponsored safety net that baby boomers took for granted. And within a decade, a majority of Americans won't even be traditional employees. A new generation of workers--from low-wage service workers to white-collar freelancers--faces a landscape in which basic benefits like paid sick leave, pensions or 401Ks, disability benefits, or employer-sponsored healthcare are things of the past. Given these facts, America is either headed for an unprecedented social crisis, or a golden age of cooperative innovation. In the absence of government action, MacArthur Genius and longtime organizer Sara Horowitz has redefined the stakes of today's labor crisis, showing that the remedy to this shift in the way we work lies in a cooperative model rooted in the American experience. From the movement for women's suffrage to the civil rights movement to your local food co-op, these cooperative endeavors--which Horowitz calls "mutualist" movements--didn't exist to make a profit, but were rather economic engines for the social good, and were founded on a simple premise: People can join together to solve their own problems, even the most intractable ones. They don't necessarily need government, or private business, to do it for them. In Mutualism, Horowitz shows how this approach will be the framework on which the future safety net for American workers will rest. Horowitz demonstrates how mutualist structures are already helping us solve common problems--and where else they could be--by revisiting the little known origins of many household names, like Land O' Lakes, Ace Hardware, and REI to show how cooperatives are quietly driving rural and urban economies alike all over the world. Call it good business, call it good citizenship--Sara Horowitz calls it Mutualism: an elegant solution to the current crisis of work, and a manifesto for a culture of collaborative cooperation"-- Não foram encontradas descrições de bibliotecas. |
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If you're reading the introduction to this book and feel like, "I already know all this stuff," keep going; there will be new material for you. Horowitz does begin with somewhat generic language, but quickly gets into fascinating living examples.
I am left wondering: what is the Venn diagram of commoning and mutualism? Horowitz has a segment where she sketches out the spheres of the market and the state. I assumed she was going to next say, "and then there's commoning," but she points to mutualism instead. Although I'm familiar with co-operatives and unions, I've never heard someone use the word "mutualism" in the way in which she does, and I'm curious why she has differentiated mutualism from commoning (the latter of which has a which has an extensive body of research behind it).
I hear that Horowitz served on the New York Federal Reserve Board; this is the part of her career that fascinates me most, and I wish we'd gotten to hear more about it in the book!
If you're looking for a book about the future of unions, cooperativism, and social structures beyond the market and the state, this is a great place to look! ( )