Chapter 1 Introduction

Chapter 2 An Introduction to Cooperatives

Chapter 3 Building Alternatives beyond Capital

Chapter 5 Socialist Cooperativism and Human Emancipation: Lenin’s Legacy

Chapter 6 Ché Guevara: Cooperatives and the Political Economy of Socialist Transition

Chapter 7 Foundations of Self-Managed Socialism: The Contribution of István Mészáros

Chapter 8 Mondragón: The Dilemmas of a Mature Cooperativism

Chapter 9 Forty Years of Self-Management in Popular Housing in Uruguay: The “FUCVAM Model”

Chapter 10 Solidarity Economy in Brazil: The Relevance of Cooperatives for the Historic Emancipation of Workers

Chapter 11 Worker Self-Management in Argentina: Problems and Potentials of Self-Managed Labor in the Context of the Neoliberal Post-Crisis

Chapter 12 From Cooperatives to Enterprises of Direct Social Property in the Venezuelan Process

Chapter 13 Agricultural Cooperatives in Cuba: 1959–Present

Chapter 14 The UBPC: A Way of Redesigning State Property with Cooperative Management

Chapter 15 Notes on the Legal Framework of the Cuban Cooperative Environment