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Economic Alternatives
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  1. 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.
  2. Bibliography on Material Pertinent to the Informal Economy
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1982
  3. Blueprint for a Green Economy
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1989
  4. Bookchin on Technology
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 1978
    Murray Bookchin’s arguments for a liberatory technology.
  5. Building Sustainable Communities
    Tools and Concepts for Self-Reliant Economic Change
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1989
  6. 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.
  7. Collectives in Spain
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    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.
  8. Community Dreams
    Ideas for Enriching Neighbourhood and Community Life
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1984
  9. Community Economic Workshops
    An Evolutionary Preparation for Social Revolution to Economic Democracy Within an Ecological Society
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 1979
    A short discussion of the use of "community economic workshops" in constructing a democratic, anarchistic society.
  10. Community Economic Development in Rural Canada
    Resource Type: Book
  11. Connexions
    Volume 8, Number 2 - Summer 1983 - Toward a New Economy
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1983
  12. Connexions Annual 1989
    A Social Change Sourcebook: Information and ideas about social and environmental alternatives
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1989
  13. Connexions Annual 1994
    A Sourcebook of Social and Environmental Alternatives
    Resource Type: Book
    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.
  14. The Connexions Annual: Introductions to the directory & its sections
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 1994
  15. Connexions Annual Resource and Reading List
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    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.
  16. Connexions Library: Economy, Poverty, Work
    Resource Type: Internet WWW site
    Selected articles from the Connexions Online Library.
  17. 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.
  18. Cooperation at Work
    The Mondragon Experience
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1983
  19. E-Commerce vs. E-Commons
    Communications in the public interest
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2001
  20. 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.
  21. Fighting for Hope
    Organizing to Realize Our Dreams
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1990
  22. Flying Without A Net
    The "Economic Freedom" of Working Canadians in 2000
    Resource Type: Book
    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.
  23. For the Common Good
    Redirecting the Economy Toward Community, the Environment and a Sustainable Future
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1989
  24. From the Roots Up
    Economic Development as if Community Mattered
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1986
  25. 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
    Published: 1995
  26. Green Business: Hope or Hoax?
    Toward an Authentic Strategy for Restoring the Earth
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1991
  27. Home!
    A Bioregional Reader
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1990
  28. 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.
  29. Living with the Land
    Communities Restoring the Earth
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1992
  30. Major Universal Problems of Living
    A New Approach to Information
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1936
  31. 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.
  32. Nature of Economies
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2001
  33. The Need for Alternative Employment
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 1989
    An alternative economy would enable movement people to integrate their bread labour with their social change work.
  34. New Age Business
    Community Corporations That Work
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1986
  35. New and Better Canada
    Principles and Policies of a New Canadian Political Party
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1993
  36. News and Letters
    Resource Type: Internet WWW site
    Articles from a Marxist-Humanist perspective.
  37. The No-Nonsense Guide to Fair Trade
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2001
  38. Organizer's Manual
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1971
  39. People's Classifieds
    The Alternative Directory for Metro Toronto
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1984
    A directory of progressive/alternative businesses, professionals, services, groups, and individuals in Toronto.
  40. People's Report
    A Social and Economic Alternative for B.C.
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1985
  41. Philosophy of Social Ecology
    Essays on Dialectical Naturalism
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1990
  42. The Policy of Abstention
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 1887
    Morris argues that socialism should be fought for using mass action rather than parliamentary action.
  43. Post Scarcity Anarchism
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1971
  44. Reclaiming the Canadian economy
    A Sweddish approach through functional Socialism
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1970
  45. Small is Beautiful
    A Study of Economics as if People Mattered
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1973
  46. Strategy for Labour
    A Radical Proposal
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1967
  47. A Targeted Approach to Worker Co-op Development
    Lessons from Mondragon and Northern Italy
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
  48. Turtle Talk
    Voices for a Sustainable Future
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1990
  49. What Do We Do Now? Building a Social Movement in the Aftermath of Free Trade
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    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.
  50. Why Do Communities Fail?
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    The strains that take their toll on community groups.
  51. Worker Co-operatives
    An Introduction
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 1985
  52. Worker Cooperatives in America
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1984
  53. Workers' Self-Management in the United States
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1984
  54. Workplace Democracy
    A Guide to Workplace Ownership, Participation, and Self-Management Experiements in the US and Europe
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1978

Experts on Economic Alternatives in the Sources Directory

  1. Canadian Institute for Advanced Research (CIFAR)
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