Routledge Companion to Alternative Organization

Martin Parker is Professor at the School of Management, University of Leicester, UKGeorge Cheney is Professor of Communication Studies and Coordinator of Doctoral Education in Communication and Information at Kent State University, Ohio, USAValérie Fournier is Senior Lecturer in Organization Studies at Leicester University, UKChris Land is Senior Lecturer in Work and Organisation at the University of Essex, UK

• Part I: Introduction 1. Advanced Capitalism: Its Promise and Failings 2. Alternatives: Past, Present and Prospective 3. Imagining Alternatives Part II: Work and Labour 4. Between Class and the Market: Self-Management in theory and in the Practice of Worker-Recuperated Enterprises in Argentina 5. Worker-Owned-and-Governed Cooperatives and the Wider Cooperative Movement: Challenges and Opportunities within and beyond the Global Economic Crisis 6. Communes and Intentional Communities 7. Non-Commodified Labour 8. Family and Household Reproduction 9. Immigrants and Immigration 10. Toward a Politics of Anonymity: Algorithmic Actors in the Constitution of Collective Agency and the Implications for Global Economic Justice Movements Part III: Exchange and Consumption 11. Fair Trade: Social Justice and Production Alternatives 12. Complementary Currencies as Slternative Organisational Forms 13. Gifts, Gifting and Gift Economies – On Challenging Capitalism with Blood, Plunder and Necklaces 14. Voluntary Simplicity 15. The Bioregional Economy: Reclaiming our Local Land 16. Organizing Transition: Principles and Tensions in Eco-Localism Part IV: Resources17. Credit Unions18. Alternative and Social Accounting 19. The Commons 20. Scrounging and Reclaiming 21. Free and Open-Source Appropriate Technology 22. Education: By the People for the People 23. Social Movements and Global Governance 24. Horizons of Possibility: Challenge, Co-Optation and Transformation

A formidable achievement which makes an important contribution both to public debate and to a range of academic disciplines. The variety and richness of ways of organizing has become almost invisible in recent political, economic and managerial discourse. This timely collection of essays serves as a reminder and a rallying call for those seeking to create or revive alternatives to the stifling and discredited orthodoxy of conventional organizations. Christopher Grey, Professor of Organization Studies, Royal Holloway, University of London.Parker, Cheney, Fournier and Land have put together an excellent collection, and added an analysis on the ability of these important forms in achieving organizational effectiveness as well as their struggle to achieve the ideals of social and environmental justice. The book would complement the reading lists for business courses in organizational behavior, organization theory, or organizational change. It would also be a benefit for anyone teaching advanced courses in economics, sociology, or public administration.John T. Luhman, Eastern New Mexico University, USAWhat a wonderfully tonic set of essays about the alternatives to capitalism taking shape all around us! Authors from across the globe discuss an astoundingly rich array of alternatives, from coops in Argentina to voluntary simplicity, from credit unions to eco-localism. If you had any doubt that another world is possible, read this and be challenged!Paul Adler, USC Marshall School of Business, Los Angeles, USAThis Routledge Companion to Alternative Organization should not be viewed, as just a rigorous critique of capitalism with all its promises and excesses. These authors aim to think differently and imagine a new world. The solutions they propose or theorize are applied in various contexts [...] Because of its positive and inspiring focus, this Routledge Companion to Alternative Organization is an instructive reference for public and university libraries as well.Yves Laberge, University of Rennes, France