Cooperativism and Democracy

Selected Works of Polish Thinkers
Erscheinungsjahr 2017
ISBN: 978-90-04-29700-5
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 111, 416 Seiten, Format (B × H): 162 mm x 241 mm, Gewicht: 754 g

Reihe: Studies in Critical Social Sciences

The Cooperativism and Democracy, edited by Bartlomiej Blesznowski is not purely a scientific book, but rather a guide which shows how scholars and activists wrote about the community, social participation and the politics in Poland in the early 20th century. The book contains a selection of texts in socio-political thought, led by the work of one of most important Polish thinkers – Edward Abramowski, socialist, philosopher and psychologist. Polish cooperativism can be inspiring to both contemporary researchers and political activists in Europe post the economic crisis, which brought about a crisis of faith in political and economic institutions. These works have a chance to become a significant voice in the debate over the relationship of contemporary economics and politics.

Contributors are: Edward Abramowski, Fr. Stanislaw Adamski, Bartlomiej Blesznowski, Zygmunt Chmielewski, Zofia Daszynska-Golinska, Maria Dabrowska, Jan Hempel, Jerzy Kurnatowski, Romuald Mielzarski, Remigiusz Okraska, Maria Orsetti, Adam Próchnik, Marian Rapacki, Franciszek Stefczyk, Edward Taylor, Stanislaw Thugutt, Stanislaw Wojciechowski, and Jan Wolski.

First published in Polish as Kooperatyzm, spóldzielczosc, demokracja. Wybór pism by Wydawnictwo Uniwerstytetu Warszawskiego in 2014. The current work includes an additional chapter ‘Through Cooperatives to the Future Order’ by Zofia Daszynska-Golinska.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Blesznowski, Bartlomiej

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Sozialphilosophie, Politische Philosophie
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Theorie, Politische Philosophie
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Regierungspolitik Wirtschafts- und Finanzpolitik
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtswissenschaft Allgemein
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Wirtschaftspolitik, politische Ökonomie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgements
List of Illustrations
About the Contributors

1 Utopia in the Service of Modernity: On the Sources of Cooperativism
Bartlomiej Blesznowski

2 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 1939
Remigiusz Okraska

Part 1: Cooperativism and Democracy
3 The Social Ideas of Cooperativism
Edward Abramowski
4 Clasped HandsWith of without the Idea
Maria Dabrowska
5 Solidarism as a Doctrine of Democracy
Jerzy Kurnatowski
6 On Uniting the Movement
Romuald Mielczarski
7 Through Cooperatives to the Future Order
Zofia Daszynska-Golinska

Part 2: The Aims and Functions of Cooperativism
8 Woman, Whose Name is Millions (On the Responsibilities of Women in the Cooperative Movement)
Maria Orsetti
9 The Social Aims of Cooperatives
Stanislaw Thugutt
10 A National Ideology of Cooperativism
Stanislaw Wojciechowski
11 An Economic Program for Consumer Cooperativism
Marian Rapacki
12 The Concept of CooperativismCooperativism as the Organization of Relatively Weak Economic Elements
Edward Taylor

Part 3: The Social Bases of Labor Cooperativism
13 Consumer Cooperatives and Trade Unions
Jan Hempel
14 Work Cooperatives
Jan Wolski

Part 4: Universal Cooperativism or Labor Cooperativism
15 The Universal or Class Nature of Cooperativism
Marian Rapacki
16 The Ideology of Labor Cooperativism
Adam Próchnik

Part 5: The Agricultural Cooperative Movement and the Stefczyk Savings and Loan Fund
17 The Past and Future of the Farmers’ Agricultural and Trade Cooperatives
Fr. Stanislaw Adamski
18 The Position of Cooperativism in Agriculture
Franciszek Stefczyk
19 The Farming Cooperative and Its Development
Zygmunt Chmielewski

Part 6: Housing Cooperativism
20 The Importance of Cooperative Housing
Teodor Toeplitz
21 “Glass Houses”: An Experiment in Cooperative Life
Adam Próchnik

Bibliography
Personal Index

Über Autor(innen)

Bartlomiej Blesznowski, 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).