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Cooperativism and Democracy, edited by Bartlomiej Blesznowski is not purely a scientific book, but rather a guide which shows how scholars and activists wrote about the community, social participation and politics in Poland in the early 20th century. The book contains a selection of texts in socio-political thought, led by the work of one of the most important Polish thinkers - Edward Abramowski, socialist, philosopher and psychologist.

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Author:   Bartlomiej Blesznowski
Publisher:   Haymarket Books
Imprint:   Haymarket Books
Volume:   111
ISBN:  

9781608460908

ISBN 10:   1608460908
Pages:   416
Publication Date:   08 January 2019
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Acknowledgements List of Illustrations About the Contributors 1 Utopia in the Service of Modernity: On the Sources of Cooperativism  Bartłomiej Błesznowski 2 From Self-Help to the Vision of New System: An Outline of the Material and Ideological Development of the Cooperative Movement in Poland to the Year 1939  Remigiusz Okraska Part 1: Cooperativism and Democracy 3 The Social Ideas of Cooperativism  Edward Abramowski 4 Clasped HandsWith of without the Idea  Maria Dąbrowska 5 Solidarism as a Doctrine of Democracy  Jerzy Kurnatowski 6 On Uniting the Movement  Romuald Mielczarski 7 Through Cooperatives to the Future Order  Zofia Daszyńska-Golińska Part 2: The Aims and Functions of Cooperativism 8 Woman, Whose Name is Millions (On the Responsibilities of Women in the Cooperative Movement)  Maria Orsetti 9 The Social Aims of Cooperatives  Stanisław Thugutt 10 A National Ideology of Cooperativism  Stanisław Wojciechowski 11 An Economic Program for Consumer Cooperativism  Marian Rapacki 12 The Concept of CooperativismCooperativism as the Organization of Relatively Weak Economic Elements  Edward Taylor Part 3: The Social Bases of Labor Cooperativism 13 Consumer Cooperatives and Trade Unions  Jan Hempel 14 Work Cooperatives  Jan Wolski Part 4: Universal Cooperativism or Labor Cooperativism 15 The Universal or Class Nature of Cooperativism  Marian Rapacki 16 The Ideology of Labor Cooperativism  Adam Próchnik Part 5: The Agricultural Cooperative Movement and the Stefczyk Savings and Loan Fund 17 The Past and Future of the Farmers’ Agricultural and Trade Cooperatives  Fr. Stanisław Adamski 18 The Position of Cooperativism in Agriculture  Franciszek Stefczyk 19 The Farming Cooperative and Its Development  Zygmunt Chmielewski Part 6: Housing Cooperativism 20 The Importance of Cooperative Housing  Teodor Toeplitz 21 “Glass Houses”: An Experiment in Cooperative Life  Adam Próchnik Bibliography Personal Index

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Bartomiej Besznowski, Ph. D. (1983), University of Warsaw, Assistant Professor of Sociology, is one of the creators of the research project 'Traditions of Polish Cooperativism' and co-editor ofGenealogy of Contemporaneity. A History of Ideas in Poland 18151939(WUW, 2015).

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