Social Alternatives in Southern Europe and Latin America: Solidarity, Mutual Aid, and Cooperation in Comparative Perspective (19th21st Centuries) [Hardcover]

Introduction? 1. Comparative Notes on the History of the Social and Solidarity Economy in Latin Europe? 2. The Old and New Uses of Communal Lands: How to Escape Commodification?? 3. Mutuality and Cooperation in the Transition to Modernity (Portugal, 18341934)? 4. From Associationism to the Solidarity Economy: A Historical Perspective? 5. Hybridisation, Social Innovation and Commoning: The Experience of the Italian Cooperative Enterprises at the Turn of the Millennium? 6. Mutualism in Chile, 18481990: Social Security, Sociopolitical Movement, and Space of Sociability in the Working Class? 7. From Cooperation to Workers Control: Defending Sources of Employment in Argentina? 8. Mutual Benefit Societies in Spain from the Ancien R?gime to 1936: Three Decades of Studies? 9. Associationism, Mutualism, and Cooperativism in Catalonia, 18681938? 10. Origins and Diversity of Cooperative Practices Between Pupils in France: Towards a Didactics of Cooperation? 11. Cooperation Between Pupils, a Comparative View: Spain, France and Italy

This book deals with the evolution of initiatives connected to the social and solidarity economy and their political cultures and educational implications in the south of Europe and in Latin America.

Employing a comparative perspective, the contributors present 11 studies of these trajectories in Argentina, Chile, Portugal, France, Italy, Spain, and Catalonia in order to engender familiarity with social tributary practices and projects in the Latin world. As the cyclical crises of capitalism and their resulting inequalities have created proposals of reform and brought them into action, certain shared ideological influences and policies have emerged across these societies. Faced with the interpretative schemes used for the Anglo-Saxon sphere, which have been the usual reference in international research, this volumes geographical and cultural matrix of analysis helps fill a longstanding gap in this lC1