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Book SynopsisCooperativism and Democracy, edited by Bartlomiej Blesznowski is not purely a scientific book, but rather a guide which shows how scholars and activists wrote about the community, social participation and politics in Poland in the early 20th century. The book contains a selection of texts in socio-political thought, led by the work of one of the most important Polish thinkers - Edward Abramowski, socialist, philosopher and psychologist.
Table of ContentsAcknowledgements
List of Illustrations
About the Contributors
1 Utopia in the Service of Modernity: On the Sources of Cooperativism
Bartłomiej Błesznowski
2 From Self-Help to the Vision of New System: An Outline of the Material and Ideological Development of the Cooperative Movement in Poland to the Year 1939
Remigiusz Okraska
Part 1: Cooperativism and Democracy
3 The Social Ideas of Cooperativism
Edward Abramowski
4 Clasped HandsWith of without the Idea
Maria Dąbrowska
5 Solidarism as a Doctrine of Democracy
Jerzy Kurnatowski
6 On Uniting the Movement
Romuald Mielczarski
7 Through Cooperatives to the Future Order
Zofia Daszyńska-Golińska
Part 2: The Aims and Functions of Cooperativism
8 Woman, Whose Name is Millions (On the Responsibilities of Women in the Cooperative Movement)
Maria Orsetti
9 The Social Aims of Cooperatives
Stanisław Thugutt
10 A National Ideology of Cooperativism
Stanisław Wojciechowski
11 An Economic Program for Consumer Cooperativism
Marian Rapacki
12 The Concept of CooperativismCooperativism as the Organization of Relatively Weak Economic Elements
Edward Taylor
Part 3: The Social Bases of Labor Cooperativism
13 Consumer Cooperatives and Trade Unions
Jan Hempel
14 Work Cooperatives
Jan Wolski
Part 4: Universal Cooperativism or Labor Cooperativism
15 The Universal or Class Nature of Cooperativism
Marian Rapacki
16 The Ideology of Labor Cooperativism
Adam Próchnik
Part 5: The Agricultural Cooperative Movement and the Stefczyk Savings and Loan Fund
17 The Past and Future of the Farmers’ Agricultural and Trade Cooperatives
Fr. Stanisław Adamski
18 The Position of Cooperativism in Agriculture
Franciszek Stefczyk
19 The Farming Cooperative and Its Development
Zygmunt Chmielewski
Part 6: Housing Cooperativism
20 The Importance of Cooperative Housing
Teodor Toeplitz21 “Glass Houses”: An Experiment in Cooperative Life
Adam PróchnikBibliography
Personal Index
