In response to Margaret Thatcher's neoliberal pronouncement that "There is no alternative," the World Social Forum and other opponents of the Washington Consensus declared "Another world is possible!" This volume is one of five dedicated to exploring the contours of that other world, a world beyond capitalism. The editor (a professor of sociology at the U. of Coimbra, Portugal) presents case studies of alternative models of non-capitalist production, land management, and labor solidarity from around the world, including garbage collection and recycling cooperatives in Colombia, agricultural cooperatives in Mozambique, the activities of Brazil's Landless Peasant Worker's Movement, union networking in the Southern Initiative on Globalization and Trade Union Rights, strikes by metalworkers in Brazil, and organizing among fishermen in India's southern state of Kerala. Other volumes are concerned with participatory democracy and alternative epistemologies and discourses. Annotation ©2006 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
This is the second volume, after Democratizing Democracy, of the collection Reinventing Social Emancipation: Towards New Manifestoes.Here, the author examines alternative models to capitalist developmentthrough case studies of collective land management, cooperatives ofgarbage collectors and women's agricultural cooperatives. He alsoanalyzes the changing capital-labor conflict of the past two decadesand the way labor solidarity is reconstituting itself under new formsfrom Brazil to Mozambique and South Africa.
Praise for the Reinventing Social Emancipation project:
"At last, someone is putting concrete analysis on 'counter-hegemonicglobalization from the bottom up.' Boaventura de Sousa Santos hasassembled social scientists from Latin America, Africa and Asia todescribe another kind of democracy, full of lessons for the benightedcountries of the North, where it should be mandatory reading forserious people." - Immanuel Wallerstein, Yale University
"Inthe 1980s, Margaret Thatcher declared 'There is no alternative.' At thebeginning of the 21st century the World Social Forum replied, 'AnotherWorld Is Possible.' The project, Reinventing Social Emancipation, is apassionate and wide-ranging effort at enriching our vision of thatother world." -Erik Olin Wright, University of Wisconsin
A meticulous examination of new forms of the conflict betweencapital and labor, and the emergence of new labor solidarities acrossthe developing world.
This is the second volume, after
Democratizing Democracy, of the collection
Reinventing Social Emancipation: Towards New Manifestoes. Here, the author examines alternative models to capitalist development through case studies of collective land management, cooperatives of garbage collectors and women’s agricultural cooperatives. He also analyzes the changing capital-labor conflict of the past two decades and the way labor solidarity is reconstituting itself under new forms from Brazil to Mozambique and South Africa.
Praise for the Reinventing Social Emancipation project:“At last, someone is putting concrete analysis on ‘counter-hegemonic globalization from the bottom up.’ Boaventura de Sousa Santos has assembled social scientists from Latin America, Africa and Asia to describe another kind of democracy, full of lessons for the benighted countries of the North, where it should be mandatory reading for serious people.” — Immanuel Wallerstein, Yale University
“In the 1980s, Margaret Thatcher declared ‘There is no alternative.’ At the beginning of the 21st century the World Social Forum replied, ‘Another World Is Possible.’ The project, Reinventing Social Emancipation, is a passionate and wide-ranging effort at enriching our vision of that other world.” —Erik Olin Wright, University of Wisconsin
This is the second volume, after Democratizing Democracy, of the collection Reinventing Social Emancipation: Towards New Manifestoes.Here, the author examines alternative models to capitalist developmentthrough case studies of collective land management, cooperatives ofgarbage collectors and women’s agricultural cooperatives. He alsoanalyzes the changing capital-labor conflict of the past two decadesand the way labor solidarity is reconstituting itself under new formsfrom Brazil to Mozambique and South Africa.
Praise for the Reinventing Social Emancipation project:
“At last, someone is putting concrete analysis on ‘counter-hegemonicglobalization from the bottom up.’ Boaventura de Sousa Santos hasassembled social scientists from Latin America, Africa and Asia todescribe another kind of democracy, full of lessons for the benightedcountries of the North, where it should be mandatory reading forserious people.” — Immanuel Wallerstein, Yale University
“Inthe 1980s, Margaret Thatcher declared ‘There is no alternative.’ At thebeginning of the 21st century the World Social Forum replied, ‘AnotherWorld Is Possible.’ The project, Reinventing Social Emancipation, is apassionate and wide-ranging effort at enriching our vision of thatother world.” —Erik Olin Wright, University of Wisconsin
