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Below are resources (books, articles, etc.) in the Connexions Library related to this topic. Clicking on an item's title takes you to its bibliographic page, which typically contains author, publisher, and cataloguing details, an abstract where available, and a link to the full text if available online, as well as links to related topics in the subject index. You can also search for materials through the Title, Author, Subject, Chronological, Dewey, Library of Congress, and Format indexes.
Particularly recommended items are flagged with a red Connexions logo:

  1. Against All Odds
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1985
    The shadow haunting the power structure is the danger that those who are controlled will realize they are powerless only so long as they think they are. Once people stop believing they are powerless the whole edifice is in danger of collapse.
  2. Bi Any Other Name
    Bisexual People Speak Out

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1991
  3. Breaking the Bonds
    The Realities of Sexually Open Relationships

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1982
  4. Circles of Strength
    Community Alternatives to Alienation

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1993
    Forsey, an activist and writer who works with the Federation of Egalitarian Communites has put together a collection of essays, and interviews with First Nations, religious orders and rural intentional communities giving their views and experiences as communities.
  5. Common Sense for Hard Times 
    The Power of the Powerless to Cope with Everyday life and Transform Society in The Nineteen Seventies

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1976
    Presents a vision of society as it is and as it could be. Putting the problems of contemporary daily life in historical perspective, it reveals that they have their roots in the way our society is organized, and thereby enables us to re-examine our own situation and experience.
  6. Communes in America
    The Place Just Right

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1972
  7. Communes U.S.A.
    A Personal Tour

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1972
  8. The Communistic Societies of the United States
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1875   Published: 1965
    Describes a dozen Utopian societies.
  9. Community Dreams 
    Ideas for Enriching Neighbourhood and Community Life

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1984
    A compilation of vignettes, fragments and thought starters that provides stimulating ideas for practical community transformation.
  10. Connexions Annual 1989
    A Social Change Sourcebook: Information and ideas about social and environmental alternatives

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1989
  11. Connexions Annual 1994
    A Sourcebook of Social and Environmental Alternatives

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1994
    Simultaneously a reference book and an introduction to the world of social and environmental alternatives. The bulk of the Annual is devoted to listings of grassroots groups. It also contains a series of introductory articles surveying a wide range of social and environmental issues and possibile alternatives.
  12. The Connexions Annual: Introductions to the directory & its sections
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1989   Published: 1994
  13. Connexions Annual Resource and Reading List
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1989   Published: 1994
    A short and selective list of resources on issues addressed in the Connexions Annual, such as environment, education, peace, interntional development, women's issues, urban issues, housing, human rights, civil liberties, social change.
  14. Dream Tower
    The Life and Legacy of Rochdale College

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1988
  15. Fighting for Hope 
    Organizing to Realize Our Dreams

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1990
    Detailed information and advice on how to organize a group for social change.
  16. Global Visions
    Beyond the News World Order

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1993
    This book seeks to establish how our diverse globalizing world can be turned into a common home. The authors create a dialogue about the two types of globalization occurring in the world: globalization from above and globalization from below.
  17. Group Marriage
    A Study of Contemporary Multilateral Marriage

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1973
  18. Marxists Internet Archive 
    Resource Type: Internet WWW site
    Large archive of the writings of Marx and Engels and of others in the Marxist tradition. Searchable.
  19. The Need for Alternative Employment
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1989
    An alternative economy would enable movement people to integrate their bread labour with their social change work.
  20. New Options for America
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1991
  21. The New Radicals
    Resource Type: Book
  22. New Reformation
    Notes of a Neolithic Conservative

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1969   Published: 1971
  23. Nowtopia: How Pirate Programmers, Outlaw Bicyclists, and Vacant-lot Gardeners are Inventing the Future Today
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2008
    As capitalism continues to corral every square inch of the globe into its logic of money and markets, new practices are emerging through which people are taking back their time and technological know-how. In small, under-the-radar ways, they are making life better right now, simultaneously building the foundation—technically and socially—for a genuine movement of liberation from market life.
  24. Paul Goodman: Writing on the Web
    Resource Type: Internet WWW site
    Writings of the social critic Paul Goodman.
  25. People Power
    Applying Nonviolence Theory

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1985
    Explores the theory of power on which all successful nonviolent action is based, the blocks which keep people from acting when confronted with injustice, and the roles played in any nonviolent campaign by allies, neutrals, and opponents. Numerous case histories illustrate the dynamics of nonviolent action.
  26. The People's Report
    A Social and Economic Alternative for B.C.

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1985
  27. The Preservation Institute
    The Natural Environment : The Social Environment

    Resource Type: Internet WWW site
    Today, most people recognize that modernization and growth can harm the natural environment. The Preservation Institute believes that modernization also damages the social environment - that many of our social problems are side-effects of modernization and economic growth. To preserve the natural environment and the social environment, we must modernize selectively. Factory mass production is an efficient way of producing most goods that used to be made by hand. But we are in danger of using the same centralized, standardized methods for every aspect of life, from housing to retail shopping to child care.
  28. Sex and Marriage in Utopian Communities in Nineteenth Century America
    Nineteenth-Century America

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1973
    A look at original approaches to sex and marraige in the utopian communities of nineteenth-century America. Many of these communities abolished monogamy and individualism and sought ways of dealing with the sexual life of the group as a whole.
  29. Strange Cults and Utopias of 19th Century America
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1966
    Histories of communal experiments and communities in the United States.
  30. To Have or To Be? 
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1976   Published: 1989
  31. The Uses of Disorder
    Resource Type: Book
  32. Utopian Essays and Practical Proposals 
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1951   Published: 1962
  33. The Youth Communes
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1970

Experts on Social Alternatives in the Sources Directory

  1. Connexions Library
  2. Marxists Internet Archive
  3. The Preservation Institute



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