Cooperation, Community, and Co-Ops in a Global Era

• Main Author: Ratner, Carl. (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic
• Language: English
• Published: New York, NY : Springer New York : Imprint: Springer, 2013.
• Series: International and Cultural Psychology,
• Subjects: Philosophy (General).; Applied psychology.; Psychology.; Cross Cultural Psychology.
• Online Access: https://ezaccess.library.uitm.edu.my/login?url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-5825-8

Cooperation, Community, and Co-ops in a Global Era Carl Ratner Human history is largely the story of communities, punctuated by examples of cooperatives--in fact, our level of cooperative behavior is one of the attributes that makes us most human. In recent years, however, concepts such as rugged in...

Table of Contents:

• Introduction To The Praxis of Cooperative Behavior
• General Aspects of Cooperation That Potentiate But Do Not Determine Concrete Cooperation
• The Dialectical Relation between Cooperation and Capitalism: Cooperation Before, During, and After The Advent of Capitalism
• Historical Roots Of Contemporary Cooperatives
• Cooperatives March To Modernity: Market-oriented, Apolitical Cooperation
• Cooperation in Practice: Successes and Shortcomings of The International Cooperative Movement Today
• Explaining Co-op Weaknesses In Terms of The Dominant �Cooperative Paradigm
• An Enriched, Viable, Necessary Cooperative Paradigm for Our Era.