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Cooperatives in New Orleans
Anne Gessler
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University Press of Mississippi 
Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik / Geschichte
Beschreibung
Cooperatives have been central to the development of New Orleans. Anne Gessler asserts that local cooperatives have reshaped its built environment by changing where people interact and with whom, helping them collapse social hierarchies and envision new political systems.
Gessler tracks many neighborhood cooperatives, spanning from the 1890s to the present, whose alliances with union, consumer, and social justice activists animated successive generations of regional networks and stimulated urban growth in New Orleans.
Studying alternative forms of social organization within the city’s multiple integrated spaces, women, people of color, and laborers blended neighborhood-based African, Caribbean, and European communal activism with international cooperative principles to democratize exploitative systems of consumption, production, and exchange. From utopian socialist workers’ unions and Rochdale grocery stores to black liberationist theater collectives and community gardens, these cooperative entities integrated marginalized residents into democratic governance while equally distributing profits among members.
Besides economic development, neighborhood cooperatives participated in heady debates over urban land use, applying egalitarian cooperative principles to modernize New Orleans’s crumbling infrastructure, monopolistic food distribution systems, and spotty welfare programs. As Gessler indicates, cooperative activists deployed street-level subsistence tactics to mobilize continual waves of ordinary people seizing control over mainstream economic and political institutions.
Kundenbewertungen
International Cooperative Alliance, Progressivism, mutual aid, social movements, Louisiana, Inez Meyers, Black Panther Party, activism, Gathering Tree Growers Collective, alternative economics, Tom Dent, war, socialism, Laboringmen’s Protective Association, Rochdale model, Housewives’ League, Citizens’ Committee to Test the Constitutionality of Louisiana’s Separate Car Act, Colored Domestic Union, Black Arts Movement, history, Brotherhood of Co-operative Commonwealth, women’s movement, South, cooperative organizing, Freret, Louisiana Association of Cooperatives, Federation of Southern Cooperatives, Hurrican Katrina, ethnicity, coop, Hollygrove Market and Farm, Rochdale, urban, American Federation of Labor, Harvey Reed, citizenship, community development, Freret neighborhood, labor, Freret Business Men’s Association, AFL, August Graf, co-op, New Orleans Consumers’ Co-operative Union, depression, General Federation of Women’s Clubs, transnationalism, Father Albert McKnight, democracy, civil rights, Free Southern Theater Collective, Ida Weis Friend, White Laboringmen’s Protective Association, Eugene Bacarisse, Henry Hermes