Social Alternatives in Southern Europe and Latin America

Solidarity, Mutual Aid, and Cooperation in Comparative Perspective (19th–21st Centuries)

Montserrat Duch-Plana, Josep M. Pons-Altés

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2024
• Print ISBN:
  9781032574813
• eBook ISBN:
  9781040000298
• Topic: History
• Subtopic: European History
• Index: History

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.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half Title
• Series Page
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Contents
• List of Figures
• List of Tables
• Acknowledgements
• Introduction
• 1 Comparative Notes on the History of the Social and Solidarity Economy in Latin Europe
• 2 The Old and New Uses of Communal Lands: How to Escape Commodification?
• 3 Mutuality and Cooperation in the Transition to Modernity (Portugal, 1834–1934)
• 4 From Associationism to the Solidarity Economy: A Historical Perspective
• 5 Hybridisation, Social Innovation, and Commoning: The Experience of the Italian Cooperative Enterprises at the Turn of the Millennium
• 6 Mutualism in Chile, 1848–1990: Social Security, Sociopolitical Movement, and Space of Sociability in the Working Class
• 7 From Cooperation to Workers' Control: “Defending Sources of Employment” in Argentina
• 8 Mutual Benefit Societies in Spain from the Ancien Régime to 1936: Three Decades of Studies
• 9 Associationism, Mutualism, and Cooperativism in Catalonia, 1868–1938
• 10 Origins and Diversity of Cooperative Practices Between Pupils in France: Towards a Didactics of Cooperation
• 11 Cooperation Between Pupils, a Comparative View: Spain, France, and Italy
• Contributors