Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Anthropological approaches to the study of cooperatives, collectives, and self-management / June Nash and Nicholas S. Hopkins
  • Section one: The introduction of cooperatives into peasant societies
  • Organized cooperation and spontaneous cooperation in Africa (Niger Republic) / Henri Raulin-- Traditional social structure and the development of a marketing cooperative in Tanzania / Warren J. Roth
  • Traditional collectivism and modern associations : the example of Southern Dahomey / Gabriel Gosselin
  • Rural competition and the cooperative monopoly : a Ugandan case study / Joan Vincent
  • Participatory decision making and modern cooperatives in Mali : notes towards a prospective anthropology / Nicholas S. Hopkins
  • Peasant response to cooperativization under agrarian reform in the communities of the Peruvian Sierra / Gavin Alderson-Smith
  • Change in the traditional forms of agrarian collectivism in Spain : theoretical and methodological considerations / Juan-Vicente Palerm Viqueira
  • Cooperatives and agricultural development in Bangladesh / S.A. Rahim-- Section two: The transformation of capitalist agricultural systems into cooperatives
  • The patron-proletarian nexus / Thomas C. Greaves
  • Persistence and change in structure and values in the sugar plantations of Northern Peru / Giorgio Alberti
  • United Workers Ltd., Campo de Herrera, Tucumán : the first cooperative for agricultural work in Argentina, five years after its creation / Hebe M.C. Vessuri and Santiago Bilbao
  • Peasant cooperation in land-reform programs : some Latin American experiences / Shlomo Eckstein and Thomas F. Carroll
  • The Algerian model of agrarian reorganization / Hamid Alt Amara
  • Centralization and decentralization of decision making in an experiment in agricultural cooperation in Tunisia / Lilia Ben Salem
  • Economic dependency and the failure of cooperatives in Western Sicily / Jane Schneider and Peter Schneider
  • Section three: Movements, ideology, and cooperatives
  • The strategy of peasant mobilization : some cases from Latin America and Southeast Asia / Gerrit Huizer
  • Peasant sindicatos and the process of cooptation in Bolivian politics / Jorge Dandler
  • The peasants and the bureaucracy in Chilean agrarian reform / Jacques Chonchol
  • Cooperatives, participation, and development : three failures / Gabriel Gagnon
  • Political and technical factors in agricultural collectivization in Tunisia / Ezzeddine Makhlouf
  • Cooperatives in the Republic of Guinea : problems of revolutionary transformation / William Derman
  • The practicalities of participation : some problems facing the advisor employed by an integrated system of cooperatives in Peru / Charles de Weck
  • The crisis of rural cooperatives: problems in Africa, Asia, and Latin America / Orlando Fals-Borda, Raymond Apthorpe, Inayatullah
  • Section four: Cooperatives, collectives, and self-management in commerce and industry
  • The reform of marketing structures in Tunisia : state capitalism or collectivization of the means of exchange / Khalil Zamiti
  • The Tunisian experiment with service cooperatives / Hafedh Sethom
  • French farmers' cooperatives in crisis / Michèle Brognetti
  • The political role of cooperatives in Maharashtra, India / B.S. Baviskar
  • The process of industrialization in the Israeli Kibbutzim / Uri Leviatan
  • Structural problems of cooperation : the case of an Israeli transport cooperative / Rivka Weiss Bar-Yosef and Hana Rosenman
  • Worker participation in the nationalized mines of Bolivia, 1952-1972 / June Nash
  • Workers into managers : worker participation in the Chilean textile industry / Peter Winn.