Cooperatives

From the publisher: After carving up the once lovingly cared-for downtowns of Small Town America, Wal-Mart launched a frontal assault on mom-and-pop businesses all over the globe. With 1.5 million employees operating more than 3, 500 stores, Wal-Mart is now the world’s largest private employer. In this third edition of How Wal-Mart Is Destroying America (and the World), intrepid Texas newspaperman Bill Quinn continues the fight. Featuring detailed accounts of Wal-Mart’s questionable business practices and the latest information on Wal-Mart lawsuits, vendor issues, and efforts to stop expansion, Quinn shows why Wal-Mart Stores, Inc., is arguably the most feared and despised corporation in the world.

From the publisher: National drug chains squeeze local pharmacies out of business, while corporate downsizing ships jobs overseas. All across America, communities large and small are losing control of their economies to outside interests. Going Local shows how some cities and towns are fighting back. Refusing to be overcome by Wal-Marts and layoffs, they are taking over abandoned factories, switching to local produce and manufactured goods, and pushing banks to loan money to local citizens. Shuman details how dozens of communities are recapturing their own economies with these new strategies, investing not in outsiders but in locally owned businesses.

Authors: Frank T. Adams and Gary B. Hansen

Thorough guide to starting and maintaining worker cooperatives, with clear discussion of all the steps. We keep an in-store only copy behind the front desk for patrons and community members to use as a resource. We also try and keep a copy on the shelves for purchase, but this book is out of print so we can't always acquire a used copy to sell. Despite this, it's a great resource, and anyone is welcome to peruse the store copy.

From the publisher: Integrating some of the best of New Left thought with more contemporary populist and Green perspectives, Benello’s essays—and the commentaries of Harry Boyte, Steve Chase, Walda Katz-Fishman, Jane Mansbridge, Dmitri Roussopoulos and Chuck Turner—offer important insights for today’s new generation of practical utopians.