{"product_id":"cooperatives-confront-capitalism-challenging-the-neoliberal-economy-9781783606498","title":"Cooperatives Confront Capitalism: Challenging the Neoliberal Economy","description":"\u003cp\u003eCooperatives the world over are successfully developing alternative models of decision-making, employment and operation without the existence of managers, executives and hierarchies. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThrough case studies spanning the US, Latin America and Europe, including valuable new work on the previously neglected cooperative movement in Cuba, Peter Ranis explores how cooperatives have evolved in response to the economic crisis. Going further yet, Ranis makes the novel argument that the constitutionally enshrined principle of 'eminent domain' can in fact be harnessed to create and defend worker cooperatives. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eCombining the work of key radical theorists, including Marx, Gramsci and Luxemburg, with that of contemporary political economists, such as Block, Piketty and Stiglitz, \u003ci\u003eCooperatives Confront Capitalism\u003c\/i\u003e provides what is perhaps the most far-reaching analysis yet of the ideas, achievements and wider historical context of the cooperative movement.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003ePeter Ranis is professor emeritus in political science at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. His current research interests include the uses of eminent domain on behalf of the working class and cooperative movements in the US, Argentina and Cuba. He has over eighty publications in various fields of social science in such journals as \u003ci\u003eMonthly Review\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eJournal of Politics\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eStudies in Comparative International Development\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eDesarrollo Economico\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eLatin American Politics and Society\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eLabor Studies in Working Class History of the Americas\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eSocialism and Democracy\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eCanadian Journal of Development Studies\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eCurrent History\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eWorking USA: The Journal of Labor and Society\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eSituations: Project of the Radical Imagination\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eJournal of Caribbean Studies\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eCivilisations\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003ePolity\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eNew Political Science\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eAmerica-at-Work\u003c\/i\u003e. He has published four books, among them \u003ci\u003eClass, Democracy and Labor in Contemporary Argentina\u003c\/i\u003e (1995) and \u003ci\u003eArgentine Workers: Peronism and Contemporary Class Consciousness\u003c\/i\u003e (1992).\u003cbr\u003ePeter Ranis is professor emeritus in political science at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. His current research interests include the uses of eminent domain on behalf of the working class and cooperative movements in the US, Argentina and Cuba. He has over eighty publications in various fields of social science in such journals as \u003ci\u003eMonthly Review\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eJournal of Politics\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eStudies in Comparative International Development\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eDesarrollo Economico\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eLatin American Politics and Society\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eLabor Studies in Working Class History of the Americas\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eSocialism and Democracy\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eCanadian Journal of Development Studies\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eCurrent History\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eWorking USA: The Journal of Labor and Society\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eSituations: Project of the Radical Imagination\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eJournal of Caribbean Studies\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eCivilisations\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003ePolity\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eNew Political Science\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eAmerica-at-Work\u003c\/i\u003e. He has published four books, among them \u003ci\u003eClass, Democracy and Labor in Contemporary Argentina\u003c\/i\u003e (1995) and \u003ci\u003eArgentine Workers: Peronism and Contemporary Class Consciousness\u003c\/i\u003e (1992).\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Zed Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50363093844242,"sku":"9781783606498","price":36.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_f46e6b3f-dbd4-4565-857c-053d871712c2.jpg?v=1728404531","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/cooperatives-confront-capitalism-challenging-the-neoliberal-economy-9781783606498","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}