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Working communally : patterns and possibilities

Title
Working communally : patterns and possibilities / David French and Elena French.
Author
French, David (Economist)
Publication
New York : Russell Sage Foundation, [1975]

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Additional Authors
French, Elena
Description
269 pages; 24 cm
Subject
  • Communal living > United States
  • Work
  • Collective settlements > United States
  • Labor
  • Work
  • labor
  • Labor
  • Collective settlements
  • Communal living
  • Communes
  • Arbeid
  • United States
Note
  • Includes index.
Bibliography (note)
  • Bibliography: p. 241-258.
Contents
Part I: Context -- 1. The work system as oppression-roots of discontent -- 2. The "new values" -- 3. The communal work place-vision and values -- Part II: Patterns -- 4. American in the nineteenth century-determinants of communal success -- 5. American in the 1960s-the counterculture communes -- 6. America in the 1970s-cooperatives and "new communities" -- 7. Experiments abroad -- 8. Alternatives for total systems-socialism and anarchism -- Part III: Possibilities -- 9. Anticipations of a new communalism?-Twin Oaks, Grateful Union, the Bruderhof -- 10. Communial work-examples, technologies, attributes -- 11. Making communal work work-economics and law -- 12. The communal work place and social change.
ISBN
  • 0871542919
  • 9780871542915
LCCN
74025854
OCLC
  • ocm01530467
  • 1530467
  • SCSB-109470
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library