Cooperativism And Democracy

Bartłomiej Błesznowski, 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 of Genealogy of Contemporaneity. A History of Ideas in Poland 1815–1939 (WUW, 2015).

• AcknowledgementsList of IllustrationsAbout the Contributors1 Utopia in the Service of Modernity: On the Sources of CooperativismBartłomiej Błesznowski2 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 1939Remigiusz OkraskaPart 1: Cooperativism and Democracy3 The Social Ideas of CooperativismEdward Abramowski4 Clasped HandsWith of without the IdeaMaria Dąbrowska5 Solidarism as a Doctrine of DemocracyJerzy Kurnatowski6 On Uniting the MovementRomuald Mielczarski7 Through Cooperatives to the Future OrderZofia Daszyńska-GolińskaPart 2: The Aims and Functions of Cooperativism8 Woman, Whose Name is Millions (On the Responsibilities of Women in the Cooperative Movement)Maria Orsetti9 The Social Aims of CooperativesStanisław Thugutt10 A National Ideology of CooperativismStanisław Wojciechowski11 An Economic Program for Consumer CooperativismMarian Rapacki12 The Concept of CooperativismCooperativism as the Organization of Relatively Weak Economic ElementsEdward TaylorPart 3: The Social Bases of Labor Cooperativism13 Consumer Cooperatives and Trade UnionsJan Hempel14 Work CooperativesJan WolskiPart 4: Universal Cooperativism or Labor Cooperativism15 The Universal or Class Nature of CooperativismMarian Rapacki16 The Ideology of Labor CooperativismAdam PróchnikPart 5: The Agricultural Cooperative Movement and the Stefczyk Savings and Loan Fund17 The Past and Future of the Farmers’ Agricultural and Trade CooperativesFr. Stanisław Adamski18 The Position of Cooperativism in AgricultureFranciszek Stefczyk19 The Farming Cooperative and Its DevelopmentZygmunt ChmielewskiPart 6: Housing Cooperativism20 The Importance of Cooperative HousingTeodor Toeplitz21 “Glass Houses”: An Experiment in Cooperative LifeAdam PróchnikBibliographyPersonal Index