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The Solidarity Economy: Nonprofits and the Making of Neoliberalism after Empire

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Publishing Details

Full Title:

The Solidarity Economy: Nonprofits and the Making of Neoliberalism after Empire

Contributors:

By (Author) Tehila Sasson

ISBN:

9780691250380

Publisher:

Princeton University Press

Imprint:

Princeton University Press

Publication Date:

4th September 2024

Country:

United States

Classifications

Readership:

Tertiary Education

Fiction/Non-fiction:

Non Fiction

Other Subjects:

Human rights, civil rights
Colonialism and imperialism
Decolonisation and postcolonial studies
Capitalism
Economic history
Business ethics and social responsibility

Dewey:

330.9044

Physical Properties

Physical Format:

Hardback

Number of Pages:

320

Dimensions:

Width 156mm, Height 235mm

Description

The untold story of the role of humanitarian NGOs in building the neoliberal order after empire

After India gained independence in 1947, Britain reinvented its role in the global economy through nongovernmental aid organizations. Utilizing existing imperial networks and colonial bureaucracy, the nonprofit sector sought an ethical capitalism, one that would equalize relationships between British consumers and Third World producers as the age of empire was ending. The Solidarity Economy examines the role of nonstate actors in the major transformations of the world economy in the postwar era, showing how British NGOs charted a path to neoliberalism in their pursuit of ethical markets.

In the 1960s, nonprofits sought to establish an alternative to Keynesianism through their welfare and development programs. Encouraging the fair trade of commodities and goods through microfinance, consumer boycotts, and corporate social responsibility, these programs emphasized decentralization, privatization, and entrepreneurship. Tehila Sasson tells the stories of the activists, economists, politicians, and businessmen who reimagined the marketplace as a workshop for global reform. She reveals how their ideas, though commonly associated with conservative neoliberal policies, were part of a nonprofit-driven endeavor by the liberal left to envision markets as autonomous and humanizing spaces, facilitating ethical relationships beyond the impersonal realm of the state.

Drawing on dozens of newly available repositories from nongovernmental, international, national, and business archives, The Solidarity Economy reconstructs the political economy of these marketsfrom handicrafts and sugar to tea and coffeeshedding critical light on the postimperial origins of neoliberalism.

Author Bio

Tehila Sasson is assistant professor of history at Emory University. Her writing has appeared in leading publications such as the American Historical Review, Past & Present, and Dissent.

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