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Capitalism’s crisis is planetary. It is a system upending nature and society, causing many to live and work in despair. So far, the left has been incapable of inspiring an effective challenge to it. In Worker Cooperatives and Deep Democracy, Vishwas Satgar and Michelle Williams map a new transformative politics arising from inspiring worker cooperative systems that advance planetary care from below and which have the potential to undermine the capitalist status quo.
Based on over a decade of research across 15 countries, the authors examine case studies that explore transformative approaches to social reproduction, public power, nature and territorial expansion in opposition to global hegemonic power.
They also uncover the power of solidarities engendering emancipatory, utopian imaginaries in the global north and south. They show how, against all the odds, people are experimenting with deep democracy and building systems of care to live differently and exit the planetary crisis.
Introduction
Part I: Beyond the Planterary Polycrisis
1. The Planetary Polycrisis of Socio-ecological Reproduction and the Challenge of Commons Ontology
2. The Rise of Transformative Politics and Planetary Care from Below
3. Cooperatives and Transformative Change
Part II: Worker Cooperatives and Solidarity Economies as Counterhegemonic Regimes of Socio-ecological Reproduction
5. Integrating Socio-Ecological Reproduction: ULCCS in Kerala, Chilavert in Argentina and Uniforja in Brazil
6. Recalibrating Relations with Nature: Cecosesola in Venezuela, Heiveld in South Africa and Trentino in Italy
6. Engaging Political Power and Creating Solidarities: Mondragón in Spain, State-Civil Society Synergies in Kerala and the Solidarity Economy Forum in Brazil
Conclusion: Transformative Alternatives in the Age of Planetary Crisis
Description
Capitalism’s crisis is planetary. It is a system upending nature and society, causing many to live and work in despair. So far, the left has been incapable of inspiring an effective challenge to it. In Worker Cooperatives and Deep Democracy, Vishwas Satgar and Michelle Williams map a new transformative politics arising from inspiring worker cooperative systems that advance planetary care from below and which have the potential to undermine the capitalist status quo.
Based on over a decade of research across 15 countries, the authors examine case studies that explore transformative approaches to social reproduction, public power, nature and territorial expansion in opposition to global hegemonic power.
They also uncover the power of solidarities engendering emancipatory, utopian imaginaries in the global north and south. They show how, against all the odds, people are experimenting with deep democracy and building systems of care to live differently and exit the planetary crisis.
