All or none : cooperation and sustainability in Italy's red belt / Alison Sánchez Hall.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Sánchez Hall, Alison, author.

Series:

Anthropology of Europe (Series) ; v. 3.

Anthropology of Europe ; volume 3

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Collective farms--Italy.

Collective farms.

Cooperation--Italy.

Cooperation.

Sustainable agriculture.

Italy.

Sustainable agriculture--Italy.

Italy--Ravenna.

Physical Description:

xix, 263 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

New York : Berghahn Books, 2018.

Summary:

At once a social history and anthropological study of the world's oldest voluntary collective farms, All or None is a story of how landless laborers joined together in Ravenna, Italy to acquire land, sometimes by occupying private land in what they called a "strike in reverse," and how they developed sophisticated land use plans, based not only on the goal of profit, but on the human value of providing work where none was available. It addresses the question of the viability of cooperative enterprise as a potential solution for displaced workers, and as a more humane alternative to capitalist agribusiness.

Contents:

"Alice nel paese delle meravilige" (Alice the anthropologist in wonderland)

Ravenna-then and now

The red belt

Underneath all, the land

Land to those who work her

Top down or bottom up?

Making work

Working together

Conclusion

Glossary

References

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Sánchez Hall, Alison, author. All or none

ISBN:

9781785339806

178533980X

OCLC:

1023485810