The Dictionary of Alternatives
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The Dictionary of Alternatives

Utopianism and Organization

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The Dictionary of Alternatives

Utopianism and Organization

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'There is no alternative to free market liberalism and managerialism', is the orthodoxy of the twenty-first century. All too often, ordinary people across the world are being told that the problem of organization is already solved, or that it is being solved somewhere else, or that it need not concern them because they have no choices. This dictionary provides those who disagree with the evidence. Using hundreds of entries and cross-references, it proves that there are many alternatives to the way that we currently organize ourselves. These alternatives could be expressed as fictional utopias, they could be excavated from the past, or they could be described in terms of the contemporary politics of anti-corporate protest, environmentalism, feminism and localism. Part reference work, part source book, and part polemic, this dictionary provides a rich understanding of the ways in which fiction, history and today's politics provide different ways of thinking about how we can and should organize for the coming century.

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Publisher
Zed Books
Year
2013
ISBN
9781848136472
Edition
1
Index
Abbey of Theleme 1, 45
Abbot of Citeaux 40
Acquitaine, Dukes of 41
Act of Uniformity (1662) 198
Action Direct 281
advertising 163
aetheism 115, 220
Afghanistan 234, 269
Agenda 21 278
agora 2, 71, 215
agoraphobia 2
agriculture 26, 91, 302; collectivism 50; community supported 60, 85; fair trade 91-2; labour organization 38; organic 60, 93; subsistence 162
Aid of Citizens 18
AIDS activism 26, 42
Albert, Michael 317
Albigensians 40
Alexander II, Tsar 146, 281
Alexander III, Tsar 151
Alfassa, Mirra 19
Algeria 121, 172, 316
al-Qaeda 282
alternatives, economic systems 69; historical xi; geopolitical 4; to the status quo 68; see also cults,
Amana colonies, 253; see Amish, Anabaptists
Amazons 5, 86, 99
America 5, American dream 5, 9, 63, 127, 213; and capitalism 6; anti-state traditions 106; civil rights movement in 76; and collectivism 50; and Cuba 66; and Koumintang 170; non-conformism in 79, 160, 179; and progress 81, 191; revolution in 158; United States 5, 11, 17, 26, 57, 72, 94; Socialist Worker Party 134, 160; workers in 10, 115, 280, 291
American Libertarian League 29
Amish 7-8, 59, 68, 79
Amnesty International 225...

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. About the Authors
  3. Title
  4. Copyright
  5. Contents
  6. Introduction
  7. Abbey of Theleme
  8. Bakunin, Mikhail
  9. Captain Swing
  10. Decroissance / Degrowth
  11. Ecofeminism
  12. Fair Trade
  13. Gandhi
  14. Hayden, Dolores
  15. Illich, Ivan
  16. John Lewis Partnership
  17. Kalmar
  18. Le Corbusier
  19. Management
  20. Network
  21. Oceana
  22. Paradise
  23. Quakers
  24. Rand, Ayn
  25. Sade, Marquis De
  26. Terrorism
  27. Utopia
  28. Via Campesina
  29. Walden
  30. ZakĆ¢T
  31. Further Reading
  32. Index