Work and Community The Scott Bader Commonwealth and the Quest for a New Social Order

Acknowledgements.  Introduction.  Part I: Background  1. The Fellowship, the Strike and the Commonwealth  2. Capitalism and the Christian Social Testimony  3. Precursors and Contemporaries of the Commonwealth  4. The People of the Commonwealth  Part II: The First Decade of the Commonwealth 1951–1963  5. The Commonwealth Begins to Reorganize Work  6. The Transformation of Wages and Profits  7. Power, Control and Decision Making  8. The Union  9. The Main Advantages of the Commonwealth  10. The Emergence of New Attitudes  Part III: The Constitution of 1963 and its Potentialities  11. The Commonwealth is Coming of Age  12. The Constitution of 1963  13. The Body Politic and the Soul of the Commonwealth  14. The Commonwealth Creator of a Human Space Rooted in the Universal  15. The Commonwealth Ideal of Man  16. Growing up to Responsible Participation  17. Participation in a Five-Dimensional Universe  Part IV: The Commonwealth and the Meaning of Work  18. Universal Problems of Work  19. The Basic Experience of Work  20. Things, Means and Ends  21. The Product, Use and Exchange Values  22. People and Service to the Community  23. Work and Society  24. Work and Ultimate Reality  Part V: Conclusions  25. Potentialities and Realities  26. The New and the Old Consciousness  27. Towards a New Social Order.  Epilogue.  Appendix: On Method.  Note on Comparison of the Quota and Random Sample.  Index.

Biography

Fred H. Blum (1914-1990) was an American social scientist and the founder of The New Era Centre. He was born in Germany in 1914, emigrated to the US in 1938 where he became an American citizen and came to Britain in 1959 on behalf of the Society of Friends (Quakers) to study new developments in mental health and religion with special reference to the organization of industry. Fred taught economics at Howard University in Washington DC and was a professor of social sciences in Michigan and Minnesota. The US Senate appointed Fred advisor to the Labor and Welfare Committee, and he worked as a consultant for the young Senator John F. Kennedy.