Reinventing Cooperativism : The Art of Organizing and Reorganizing with Those at the Bottom.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Mendoza Vidaurre, René.

Series:

Studies in Critical Social Sciences Series

Studies in Critical Social Sciences Series ; v.359

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Cooperative societies.

Cooperation.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (410 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Boston : BRILL, 2026.

Summary:

Based on more than 15 years of accompanying cooperatives in Central America, this book explains that many cooperatives of the XXI century have been coopted by neoliberalism and need to be reinvented to fulfil their potential of recreating their communities.

Contents:

Front Cover

Half Title

Series Information

Title Page

Copyright Page

Contents

Acknowledgments

Illustrations and Tables

Introduction

1 The Reason for This Book

2 Perspectives for Understanding Cooperatives

3 The Framework

4 The Reason behind This Book

5 How This Book Was Written

5.1 Let Realities Shake Our Beliefs

5.2 Ways of Studying Which Make Another Cooperative Emerge

5.3 Ways of Accompanying Which Make Another Cooperative Emerge

6 Spirit of Cooperative Innovation

6.1 Awakening from the Curse of the Yard

6.2 Democratization and Mobilization

6.3 Horizontal and Vertical Diversification (Sustainable Agro-industrialization)

6.4 Cooperative Innovation

6.5 Sense of Ownership

7 Formation

8 Organization of the Book

Chapter 1 An Organizational Challenge to the Peasant and Cooperative Crisis

1 Introduction

2 The Hacienda Institution and Peasant Resistance

2.1 From Yard to Hacienda

2.2 The Strength of the Hacienda in Cooperatives

3 The Peasantry and Their Persistence

4 The Role of Organizations in the Global System

4.1 Genesis and Evolution of Organizations

4.2 Cooperativism in Europe

4.3 Cooperativism in Latin America

5 The Desired Reinvention

6 Conclusions

Chapter 2 New Structures with Momentum

2 Transformational Structures of Cooperatives

2.1 From Just Being an Enterprise to Being a Cooperative

2.2 Cooperative, from Being Treated as an Enterprise to Being Seen as a Cooperative

2.3 Cooperatives Which Interact with Families and Recreate their Identities

3 Cooperative Structure on a Larger Scale and in Conflicted Realities

3.1 Cooperative Architecture and Its Structural Limits

3.2 Contested Structures (and Economic Circuits)

3.3 Structures of Global Circuits

4 The Old Path.

4.1 The Hacienda Structure

4.2 Cooperatives That Reproduce the Old Path

4.3 Individual-Collective Duality and the Dilemma of Betrayal

4.4 Cooperative Structure as Alternative to the P̱atrón-Fieldhand Structure

5 Structures as Institutionalized Innovations

5.1 Innovative Cooperatives with New Structures

5.2 Cooperatives Connected with Endogenous Institutions

Chapter 3 Mechanisms or Fulcrums for Changing Structures

2 The Mechanism of Oligarchy and Democratization in Organizations

2.1 "The Iron Law" and the Way to Avoid It

2.2 The Mechanism of the "Iron Law" and Democracy in Cooperatives

3 Internal and Interrelated Mechanisms

3.1 Organizational Self-Ties

3.2 Member Contributions and Profit Sharing with a Sense of Recognition

3.3 Mechanisms of Glocal Triangulation

4 Rooted in Community, Cooperative, and Peasant Values

4.1 Sticking to the Communities

4.2 Sticking to Differentiated Products and Diversified Agriculture

4.3 Sticking to Their Own Virtuous Values

5 Principle of Stewardship

5.1 Thinking about the Seventh Generation

5.2 Stewardship in Biblical Tradition

5.3 Stewardship in Businesses

5.4 Stewardship in Cooperatives

5.5 A New Perception of Stewardship from and for Cooperatives

6 Protection Mechanisms for Spaces Free from Capitalism

7 Conclusions

Chapter 4 Conditions That Facilitate the Perseverance of Innovative Structures

2 Cooperative Intelligence

2.1 Information Organization and Analysis

2.2 Technology Which Mobilizes Communities

3 Governing Markets through Commercialization

3.1 Cooperatives That Use Markets

3.2 Key Elements in Brokering

3.3 Inclusive Negotiation

3.4 Markets as Instruments

4 Information and Technology, Challenges for International Cooperativism.

5 A State for the Public Good

6 Building on Universities

7 Conclusion

Chapter 5 Differentiating Processes in Spaces of Transformation

2 Awakening and Changing

2.1 Problematizing the Reality

2.2 A Path Which Facilitates That Awakening

2.3 Constant Change

3 The Arduous Path of Being Daring

4 Strategic Actions

5 Awakening, Audacity, and What Is Distinctive about Reinventing a Cooperative

5.1 That Ignored or Forgotten "Inner" World

5.2 Emergence of a Cooperative Which Turns Its Back on Its Members

5.3 The Act of Separating as an Act of "Freeing"

5.4 The Magic of Connecting the Inside World to the Outside World

5.5 Sharpening This Analysis

Chapter 6 Cooperative Articulation with the State, Businesses and Churches, Embedded in Glocal Arenas

2 The Convergence of Ideas in the Last 60 Years

2.1 Ideas in a Context of Dictatorships and Revolutionary Movements

2.2 Current Ideas within a Context of Refined Authoritarianism

3 Toward a New Confluence of Ideas?

3.1 Ideas Expressed in Studies by Different Actors

3.2 Ideas That Emerge in Grassroots Organizations

3.3 Thoughtful Immersion

4 Cooperative Integration: Tiers and Scale

5 Strategic Articulation

5.1 Associative Articulation

5.2 Connections with Social Movements

5.3 Articulation with States, Enterprises and Churches

5.4 Connection with Intellectuals

6 Regional Umbrella

Conclusions

1 A Book Which Is the Fruit of Involvement

2 Keys to Cooperatives

3 The Third Social Sector

4 Contribution of Cooperatives That Reinvent Themselves

5 Opening Windows

Bibliography

Index

Back Cover.

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ISBN:

90-04-75767-8

9789004757677

OCLC:

1581930726