Worker Cooperatives and Deep Democracy
Transformative Politics and Planetary Care from Below

By (author) Michelle Williams,Vishwas Satgar

ISBN13: 9780745351575

Imprint: Pluto Press

Publisher: Pluto Press

Format: Paperback / softback

Published: 20/12/2025

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Capitalism’s crisis is planetary. It is a system upending nature and society, causing many to live and work in despair. So far, the left has been incapable of inspiring an effective challenge to it. In Worker Cooperatives and Deep Democracy, Vishwas Satgar and Michelle Williams map a new transformative politics arising from inspiring worker cooperative systems that advance planetary care from below and which have the potential to undermine the capitalist status quo. Based on over a decade of research across 15 countries, the authors examine case studies that explore transformative approaches to social reproduction, public power, nature and territorial expansion in opposition to global hegemonic power. They also uncover the power of solidarities engendering emancipatory, utopian imaginaries in the global north and south. They show how, against all the odds, people are experimenting with deep democracy and building systems of care to live differently and exit the planetary crisis.
1. Introduction: Transformative Politics and Emancipatory Alternatives Part I: Beyond the Polycrisis 2. Planetary Crisis of Socio-ecological Reproduction 3. The Coloniality of Neoliberal Economics: Towards the Life-Centric Ontology of the Commons 4. The Rise of Emancipatory Utopia and Transformative Politics Part II: Counter-hegemonic Regimes of Socio-Ecological Reproduction in Practice 5. Integrating Socio-Ecological Reproduction into Economic Activity: ULCCS in Kerala, CECESESOLA in Venezuela, and Chilivert in Argentina 6. Recalibrating Relations between the Economy and Non-human Nature: Heiveld in South Africa, Trentino in Italy, and Uniforja in Brazil 7. Recalibrating Relations between Economic and Political Power: Mondragón in Spain, State-Civil Society Synergies in Kerala, and the Solidarity Economy Forum in Brazil Conclusion
  • Sociology: work & labour
  • Working patterns & practices
  • Professional & Vocational
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