1st Edition
Social Alternatives in Southern Europe and Latin America Solidarity, Mutual Aid, and Cooperation in Comparative Perspective (19th–21st Centuries)
This book deals with the evolution of initiatives connected to the social and solidarity economy and their political cultures and educational implications in the south of Europe and in Latin America.
Employing a comparative perspective, the contributors present 11 studies of these trajectories in Argentina, Chile, Portugal, France, Italy, Spain, and Catalonia in order to engender familiarity with social tributary practices and projects in the Latin world. As the cyclical crises of capitalism and their resulting inequalities have created proposals of reform and brought them into action, certain shared ideological influences and policies have emerged across these societies. Faced with the interpretative schemes used for the Anglo-Saxon sphere, which have been the usual reference in international research, this volume’s geographical and cultural matrix of analysis helps fill a longstanding gap in this field.
The book will be of interest to scholars, educators, and students specialising in the history and political science of the social and solidarity economy sectors, as well as professionals involved in cooperatives, mutual aid societies, and associations.
Introduction
Montserrat Duch-Plana and Josep M. Pons-Altés
1. Comparative Notes on the History of the Social and Solidarity Economy in Latin Europe
Jordi Estivill
2. The Old and New Uses of Communal Lands: How to Escape Commodification?
Pedro Hespanha
3. Mutuality and Cooperation in the Transition to Modernity (Portugal, 1834–1934)
Joana Dias Pereira
4. From Associationism to the Solidarity Economy: A Historical Perspective
Jean-Louis Laville
5. Hybridisation, Social Innovation and Commoning: The Experience of the Italian Cooperative Enterprises at the Turn of the Millennium
Patrizia Battilani
6. Mutualism in Chile, 1848–1990: Social Security, Sociopolitical Movement, and Space of Sociability in the Working Class
Fernando Venegas Espinoza
7. From Cooperation to Workers’ Control: “Defending Sources of Employment” in Argentina
Mirta Zaida Lobato
8. Mutual Benefit Societies in Spain from the Ancien Régime to 1936: Three Decades of Studies
Santiago Castillo
9. Associationism, Mutualism, and Cooperativism in Catalonia, 1868–1938
Montserrat Duch-Plana and Ramon Arnabat-Mata
10. Origins and Diversity of Cooperative Practices Between Pupils in France: Towards a Didactics of Cooperation
Sylvain Connac
11. Cooperation Between Pupils, a Comparative View: Spain, France and Italy
Albert Irigoyen, Josep M. Pons-Altés, and Carole Gauthié
Biography
Montserrat Duch-Plana is a professor at Rovira i Virgili University. Her main areas of research are the social history of the 20th century, memory policies, and the public uses of history and the history of women.
Josep M. Pons-Altés is a professor at Rovira i Virgili University. His main areas of research are contemporary history of Catalonia and didactics of the social sciences.
