For All The People

(Paperback, 2nd ed.)

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Seeking to reclaim a history that has remained largely ignored by most historians, this dramatic and stirring account examines each of the definitive American cooperative movements for social change-farmer, union, consumer and communalist - that have been all but erased from collective memory. Focusing far beyond one particular era, organisation, leader, or form of cooperation, For All the People documents the multigenerational struggle of the American working people for social justice.

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New generations of readers will find this a fascinating account, and aging co-opers like myself will understand better what we did, what we tried to do, where we succeeded, and where we failed. Get this book and read it. --Paul Buhle, coeditor, Encyclopedia of the American Left
The self-destroying machine of industrial consumer capitalism lurches toward its collapse, and those who come after will need the information and inspiration in this marvelously detailed book. --Ernest Callenbach, author, Ecotopia and Ecotopia Emerging
Written with integrity, intelligence, passion, and commitment, For All the People draws on deep experience and, if we read it well, provides a road map to the future. --Malcolm Margolin, author, The Ohlone Way

Author Bio

John Curl is the author of Ancient American Poets, History of Work Cooperation in America, Memories of Drop City, and seven books of poetry. He has been a member of Heartwood Cooperative Woodshop for more than 30 years. He lives in Berkeley, California. Ishmael Reed is a novelist, poet, playwright, essayist, and National Book Award nominee. He is also a publisher and editor of numerous anthologies and magazines as well as a teacher and lecturer. He lives in San Francisco.