Cooperativism and Democracy : Selected Works of Polish Thinkers.

Intro -- Cooperativism and Democracy: Selected Works of Polish Thinkers -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- List of Illustrations -- About the Contributors -- 1 Utopia in the Service of Modernity: On the Sources of Cooperativism -- 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 -- Part 1: Cooperativism and Democracy -- 3 The Social Ideas of Cooperativism -- 4 Clasped Hands: With or without the Idea -- 5 Solidarism as a Doctrine of Democracy -- 6 On Uniting the Movement -- 7 Through Cooperatives to the Future Order -- Part 2: The Aims and Functions of Cooperativism -- 8 Woman, Whose Name is Millions (On the Responsibilities of Women in the Cooperative Movement) -- 9 The Social Aims of Cooperatives -- 10 A National Ideology of Cooperativism -- 11 An Economic Program for Consumer Cooperativism -- 12 The Concept of Cooperativism: Cooperativism as the Organization of Relatively Weak Economic Elements -- Part 3: The Social Bases of Labor Cooperativism -- 13 Consumer Cooperatives and Trade Unions -- 14 Work Cooperatives -- Part 4: Universal Cooperativism or Labor Cooperativism -- 15 The Universal or Class Nature of Cooperativism -- 16 The Ideology of Labor Cooperativism -- 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 -- 18 The Position of Cooperativism in Agriculture -- 19 The Farming Cooperative and Its Development -- Part 6: Housing Cooperativism -- 20 The Importance of Cooperative Housing -- 21 "Glass Houses": An Experiment in Cooperative Life -- Bibliography -- Personal Index.

The Cooperativism and Democracy, edited by Bartłomiej Błesznowski is a selection of texts by important Polish thinkers of the early 20th century about cooperativism, including The Social Ideas of Cooperativism by Edward Abramowski - one of the most influential modern Polish philosophers.

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