Cooperatives in New Orleans : Collective Action and Urban Development /

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"Cooperatives have been central to the development of New Orleans. Anne Gessler asserts that local cooperatives have reshaped its built environment by changing where people interact and with whom, helping them collapse social hierarchies and envision new political systems. Gessler tracks many n...

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Autor principal: Gessler, Anne (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, [2020]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Cooperative societies.
HISTORY > United States > State & Local > South (AL, AR, FL, GA, KY, LA, MS, NC, SC, TN, VA, WV)
Cooperatives > Louisiane > La Nouvelle-Orleans > Histoire.
Cooperative societies > Louisiana > New Orleans > History.
Louisiana > New Orleans.
New Orleans (La.) > History.
History.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: Unearthing a genealogy of grassroots economic development
  • Section One: Utopian socialist cooperatives
  • The Brotherhood of Co-operative Commonweath : modernizing infrastructure and public welfare at the dawn of the Twentieth Century
  • Section Two: Rochdale cooperatives
  • The New Orleans Housewives' League : white women's political equality and consumer reform
  • The Consumers' Co-operative Union : embedding integrated popular front and war on poverty social programs in the South
  • Section Three: Hybrid racial justice cooperatives
  • Albert Dent and the Free Southern Theater : intergenerational civil rights cooperatives and the fight against racialized economic inequality
  • The Louisiana Association of Cooperatives and Gathering Tree Growers' Collective : rebuilding a cooperative food economy in Katrina's aftermath
  • Conclusion: Hope for a cooperative life: forecasting cooperative trends.

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