Cooperatives in New Orleans : collective action and urban development /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Gessler, Anne (Author)
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, [2020]
Subjects:	Cooperative societies > Louisiana > New Orleans > History. New Orleans (La.) > History. Electronic books.
Online Access:	Connect to the full text of this electronic book

Table of Contents:

Introduction: Unearthing a genealogy of grassroots economic development
Section One: Utopian socialist cooperatives
The Brotherhood of Co-operative Commonweath : modernizing infrastructure and public welfare at the dawn of the Twentieth Century
Section Two: Rochdale cooperatives
The New Orleans Housewives' League : white women's political equality and consumer reform
The Consumers' Co-operative Union : embedding integrated popular front and war on poverty social programs in the South
Section Three: Hybrid racial justice cooperatives
Albert Dent and the Free Southern Theater : intergenerational civil rights cooperatives and the fight against racialized economic inequality
The Louisiana Association of Cooperatives and Gathering Tree Growers' Collective : rebuilding a cooperative food economy in Katrina's aftermath
Conclusion: Hope for a cooperative life: forecasting cooperative trends.