1. The Activist Cookbook
   A Hands-on Manual for Organizers, Artists and Educators who want to get their message across in powerful, creative ways
   Resource Type: Book
   First Published: 1997   Published: 1999
   
2. Alternative Americas
   An informal history by the grandmother of the counter-culture
   Resource Type: Book
   First Published: 1982
   
3. Alternative Press Center
   Resource Type: Internet WWW site
   Annotated links to alternative points of view available on the Internet.
4. The Anarchist Collectives
   Workers' Self-Management in the Spanish Revolution 1936-1939
   Resource Type: Book
   Published: 1974
   Examines the experiments in workers' self-management, both urban and rural, which took place in Spain during the revolution and Civil War.
   
5. Another world is possible if... 
   Resource Type: Book
   First Published: 2004
   Susan George suggests that we can create a new and better world -- if we act together to bring about changes. She discusses the ifs and hows.
6. A Bibliography on Material Pertinent to the Informal Economy
   Resource Type: Book
   First Published: 1982
   
7. Blueprint for a Green Economy
   Resource Type: Book
   First Published: 1989
   
8. Bookchin on Technology
   Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
   First Published: 1978
   Murray Bookchin’s arguments for a liberatory technology.
9. Build It Now
   Socialism for the Twenty-First Century
   Resource Type: Book
   First Published: 2006
   Influenced by the dramatic proeesses unfolding in Venezuela, Lebowitz re-imagines a socialism for the twenty-first century that places workers and popular communities at the centre of the project.
10. Building Sustainable Communities
    Tools and Concepts for Self-Reliant Economic Change
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1989
    The major sections of the book deal with community land trusts and other forms of community ownership of natural resources, worker-managed enterprises and other techniques of community self-management, and community currency and banking.
11. The Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives
    Resource Type: Internet WWW site
    Many articles, fact sheets and background papers and analyses, on Canadian and international issues, from the CCPA, which promotes research from a progressive point of view.
12. A Carbon-Free Future
    An Interview with Arjun Makhijani
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2009
    A carbon-free future is possible and necessary.
13. Collectives in Spain
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1938   Published: 1945
    A contemporary account of the Spanish Anarchist movements during the 1930's by Gaston Leval, a prominent anarcho-syndicalist. Attention focuses on the roles of "agrarian socialism" and education in the revolution.
14. Collectives in the Spanish Revolution
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1971   Published: 1975
    
15. 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.
16. Community Economic Workshops
    An Evolutionary Preparation for Social Revolution to Economic Democracy Within an Ecological Society
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1979
    A short discussion of the use of "community economic workshops" in constructing a democratic, anarchistic society.
17. Community Economic Development in Rural Canada
    Resource Type: Book
    
18. Connexions
    Volume 8, Number 2 - Summer 1983 - Toward a New Economy
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1983
    
19. Connexions Annual 1989
    A Social Change Sourcebook: Information and ideas about social and environmental alternatives
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1989
    
20. 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.
    
21. The Connexions Annual: Introductions to the directory & its sections
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1989   Published: 1994
    
22. Connexions Annual Overview: Economy, Poverty, Work
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1989   Published: 1994
    To effect desired change, it is necessary to have the power to set a different agenda, and therefore to challenge the current concentration of economic and political power. One of the keys to building an effective movement is mutual acts of solidarity, inspired by the principle that `an injury to one is an injury to all'.
23. 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.
24. Connexions Library: Economy, Poverty, Work Focus 
    Resource Type: Internet WWW site
    Selected articles, books, websites and other resources on the economy and economics.
25. The Conquest of Bread
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 1906
    A discussion of collectivism and the need to abolish representative government, and monetary systems.
26. Cooperation at Work
    The Mondragon Experience
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1983
    A guide to work co-operatives.
27. Don’t socialize the losses—take the whole thing!
    Socialize all of finance under democratic control!
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2008
    A demand that a few weeks ago would have seemed leftist utopianism is now entirely reasonable and indeed the only practical solution. If ALL the financial institutions—banks, insurance companies, saving and loans, pension funds—become state property, their worthless loans to each other can be wiped off the books as the mere paper that they are.
28. Ecology as Politics 
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1980
    Socialism is no better than capitalism if it makes use of the same tools. The total domination of nature inevitably entails a domination of people by the techniques of domination.
29. E-Commerce vs. E-Commons
    Communications in the public interest
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2001
    
30. The Enemy of Nature 
    The End of Capitalism or the End of the World?
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2002   Published: 2007
    We live in and from nature, but the way we have evolved of doing this is about to destroy u. Capitalism and its by-rpoducts -- imperialism, war, neoliberal globalization, racism, poverty, and the destruction of community -- are all playing apart in the destruction of our ecosystem.
31. An Examination of the Microcredit Movement
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 2001
    An examination of the microcredit movement, its history, how it functions, and future trends.
32. 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.
33. Flying Without A Net
    The "Economic Freedom" of Working Canadians in 2000
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2000
    Reports on a project to construct a quantitative index summarizing the multi-dimensional economic status of working people in Canada, based on variations in 14 different component indicators of economic and social well-being.
    
34. For a Worker’s Recovery Plan - The Causes and Cures of a New Great Depression 
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2009
    Economics is now not just for the experts. If anything is clear from the panic that started in mid- September, 2008, it is that workers must understand the economy. For clearly the “experts” have no idea what they are doing.
35. Free Trade and the New Right Agenda
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1988
    A useful snapshot of the 'free trade' debate at the time of the 1988 Free Trade Agreement between the United States and Canada.
36. From the Roots Up
    Economic Development as if Community Mattered
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1986
    
37. From The Roots Up: Economic Development As If Community Mattered
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1987
    
38. Get a Life!
    How to make a good buck dance around the dinosaurs and save the world while you're at it
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1995
    Simultaneoulsy a textbook on new careers and lifestyles for aspiring entrepreneurs and a strategy for social, economic and environmental renewal.
39. Grassroots Power and Non-Market Economies
    An Interview with Beverly Bell
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2009
    People are organized across many sectors that have never chosen to step out into the popular movement before. For example, indigenous peoples in the last 10 years or so have made a determination that they could no longer organize just as indigenous but had to become part of the so-called anti-globalization movement.
40. Green Business: Hope or Hoax?
    Toward an Authentic Strategy for Restoring the Earth
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1991
    Is green business a viable strategy or a contradiction in terms?
41. Green Political Thought
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1992
    
42. Home!
    A Bioregional Reader
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1990
    A guide to the vision and strategy of bioregionalism.
43. Ideas and Action
    Periodical profile published 1981
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1981
    Archive of some articles published in Ideas and Action, a radical paper published by the Workers Solidarity Alliance from 1981 to 1997.
44. Institute For New Economics
    Organization profile published 1986
    Resource Type: Organization
    First Published: 1986
    
45. Is Capitalism Sustainable?
    Political Economy and the Politics of Ecology
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1994
    The book concludes that world-scale capitalism may be viable for some time, but its costs (cultural, ecological, increased conflict) will be great.
46. Left Business Observer Home Page
    Resource Type: Internet WWW site
    Left Business Observer is a newsletter on economics and politics. This site collects some sample articles and background information.
47. Life, Money & Illusion
    Living on Earth as if We Want to Stay
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2006
    The failure to reduce green house gas emissions, the success of efforts to curb ozone depletion, causes related to prosperity and social justice are just some the topics in Michael Nickerson's book. By using the example of Kerela, a state in India with a population comparable to Canada's he shows how a society by working together can become car free, religious and bigotry free, have a high level of health care and literacy and be able to sustain itself on a fraction of the money on which we depend.
48. The Living Economy
    A New Economics in the Making
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1986
    An attempt to summarize the "new economics" for a wider audience. The new economics can be briefly described as that body of work, beginning with E.F. Schumacher, Herman Daly, and Hazel Henderson, which is critical of tradiational economic theory and seeks alternatives to the devastating impact of our current economic system on communities, individuals and the biosphere.
49. Living with the Land
    Communities Restoring the Earth
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1992
    A collection of stories from grassroots communities about the benefits of ecological living.
50. Major Universal Problems of Living
    A New Approach to Information
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1936
    
51. 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.
52. Mondragón Worker-Cooperatives Decide How to Ride Out a Downturn
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2009
    The Mondragón Cooperative Corporation (MCC), the largest consortium of worker-owned companies, has developed a different way of doing business—a way that puts workers, not shareholders, first.
53. Nature of Economies
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2000   Published: 2001
    
54. 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.
55. New Age Business
    Community Corporations That Work
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1986
    
56. A New and Better Canada
    Principles and Policies of a New Canadian Political Party
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1992   Published: 1993
    
57. News and Letters
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Articles from a Marxist-Humanist perspective.
58. The No-Nonsense Guide to Fair Trade
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2001
    Ransom suggests that fair, environmentally-conscious trade is not only a viable alternative to unfair free trade, but that it is the way of the future.
59. The Organizer's Manual
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1971
    
60. The People's Classifieds
    The Alternative Directory for Metro Toronto
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1984
    A directory of progressive/alternative businesses, professionals, services, groups, and individuals in Toronto.
    
61. The People's Report
    A Social and Economic Alternative for B.C.
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1985
    
62. The Philosophy of Social Ecology
    Essays on Dialectical Naturalism
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1990
    
63. The Policy of Abstention
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1887
    Morris argues that socialism should be fought for using mass action rather than parliamentary action.
    
64. Post Scarcity Anarchism
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1971
    
65. Prefigurative politics
    Connexipedia: Article in Wikipedia
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    The concept of building a new world in the shell of the old.
66. Reclaiming the Canadian economy
    A Sweddish approach through functional Socialism
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1970
    
67. Red Bologna
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1977
    
68. Small is Beautiful
    A Study of Economics as if People Mattered
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1973
    Schumacher argues that mainstream economics is incompatible with the long-term ends of humanity.
69. Spirit of the Wolf
    The Environment and Canada's Future: Volume 1
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1991
    
70. Strategy for Labour
    A Radical Proposal
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1964   Published: 1967
    
71. A Targeted Approach to Worker Co-op Development
    Lessons from Mondragon and Northern Italy
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1988   Published: 1989
    Targeted strategies offer advantages: First, expertise which permits the rapid assessment of prospective deals. Second, by concentrating on businesses which have some similarities, it is possible to build links, formal and informal, and in so doing, create the potential for common problem-solving and economies of scale in the purchase of goods and services.
72. Transforming Power
    From the Personal to the Political
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2009
    Rebick champions new ways of achieving political goals by emphasizing co-operation and consensus over confrontation and partisanship.
73. What Do We Do Now? Building a Social Movement in the Aftermath of Free Trade 
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1989
    We have the potential to create a social movement in this country that goes beyond single-issue organizing to work toward an integrated vision of a more just and caring society.
74. Whole Life Economics
    Revaluing Daily Life
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1995
    
75. Why Do Communities Fail?
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    The strains that take their toll on community groups.
76. Within and Against the Market
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Radical initiatives which take subversive action from within the system.
77. Worker Co-operatives
    An Introduction
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1985
    
78. Worker Cooperatives in America
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1984
    
79. Workers' Self-Management in the United States
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1984
    
80. Workplace Democracy
    A Guide to Workplace Ownership, Participation, and Self-Management Experiements in the US and Europe
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1978
    

Experts on Economic Alternatives in the Sources Directory

1. Connexions Information Sharing Services
2. Connexions Library/Archive
3. International Forum on Globalization
4. Marxists Internet Archive
5. The Preservation Institute