Solidarity and Fragmentation

Solidarity and Fragmentation
Author: Richard Jules Oestreicher
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Total Pages: 298
Release: 2023-02-03
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0252054660

How did the interplay between class and ethnicity play out within the working class during the Gilded Age? Richard Jules Oestreicher illuminates the immigrant communities, radical politics, worker-employer relationships, and the multiple meanings of workers' affiliations in Detroit at the end of the nineteenth century.

Solidarity Economics

Solidarity Economics
Author: Manuel Pastor
Publisher: Polity
Total Pages: 208
Release: 2021-10-25
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 9781509544073

Traditional economics is built on the assumption of self-interested individuals seeking to maximize personal gain. This is far from the whole story, however: sharing, caring and a desire to uphold the collective good are also powerful individual motives. In a world wracked by inequality, social divisions, and ecological destruction, can we build an alternative economics based on our mutual co-operation? In this book Chris Benner and Manuel Pastor invite us to imagine and create a new sort of solidarity economics – an approach grounded in our instincts for connection and community – and in so doing, actually build a more robust, sustainable, and equitable economy. They argue that our current economy is already deeply dependent on mutuality, but that the inequality and fragmentation created by the status quo undermines this mutuality and with it our economic wellbeing. They outline the theoretical framing, policy agenda, and social movements we need to revive solidarity and apply it to whole societies. Solidarity Economics is an essential read for anyone who longs for an economy that can generate prosperity, provide for all, and preserve the planet.

Solidarity Divided

Solidarity Divided
Author: Bill Fletcher
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Total Pages: 319
Release: 2009-10-19
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0520261569

The US trade union movement finds itself on a global battlefield filled with landmines and littered with the bodies of various social movements and struggles. Candid, incisive, and accessible, this text is a critical examination of labour's crisis and a plan for a bold way forward into the 21st century.

Fiscal fragmentation in decentralized countries

Fiscal fragmentation in decentralized countries
Author: Richard Miller Bird
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Total Pages: 451
Release: 2014-05-14
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1781007616

Most countries, developed and developing, are fiscally decentralized with regional and local governments of varying importance. In many of these countries, some of these sub-national governments differ substantially from others in terms of wealth, ethnic, religious, or linguistic composition. This book considers how fiscal arrangements may strengthen or weaken national solidarity and the effectiveness with which public services are provided. In particular, the nation's ability to cope with changes created by decentralization is explored.

Open the Social Sciences

Open the Social Sciences
Author: Gulbenkian Commission on the Restructuring of the Social Sciences
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Total Pages: 130
Release: 1996
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 9780804727273

A distinguished international group of scholars traces the history of the social sciences, describes the recent debates surrounding them, and discusses in what ways they can be intelligently restructured in light of this history and the debates.

Insurgent Fragmentation in the Horn of Africa

Insurgent Fragmentation in the Horn of Africa
Author: Michael Woldemariam
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 334
Release: 2018-02-15
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1108534384

When insurgent organizations factionalize and fragment, it can profoundly shape a civil war: its intensity, outcome, and duration. In this extended treatment of this complex and important phenomenon, Michael Woldemariam examines why rebel organizations fragment through a unique historical analysis of the Horn of Africa's civil wars. Central to his view is that rebel factionalism is conditioned by battlefield developments. While fragmentation is caused by territorial gains and losses, counter-intuitively territorial stalemate tends to promote rebel cohesion and is a critical basis for cooperation in war. As a rare effort to examine these issues in the context of the Horn of Africa region, based upon extensive fieldwork, this book will interest both scholarly and non-scholarly audiences interested in insurgent groups and conflict dynamics.