All or None : : Cooperation and Sustainability in Italy's Red Belt / / Alison Sánchez Hall.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Berghahn Books Complete eBook-Package 2018
• VerfasserIn: Hall, Alison Sánchez,
• Place / Publishing House: New York ;, Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2018]; ©2018
• Year of Publication: 2018
• Language: English
• Series: Anthropology of Europe ; 3
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (300 p.)

At once a social history and anthropological study of the world’s oldest voluntary collective farms, All or None is a story of how landless laborers joined together in Ravenna, Italy to acquire land, sometimes by occupying private land in what they called a “strike in reverse,” and how they developed sophisticated land use plans, based not only on the goal of profit, but on the human value of providing work where none was available. It addresses the question of the viability of cooperative enterprise as a potential solution for displaced workers, and as a more humane alternative to capitalist agribusiness.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- List of Illustrations -- List of Maps and Tables -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- List of Abbreviations -- Chapter 1. “Alice Nel Paese Delle Meraviglie” (Alice [the Anthropologist] in Wonderland) -- Chapter 2. Ravenna—Then and Now -- Chapter 3. The Red Belt -- Chapter 4. Underneath All, the Land -- Chapter 5. Land to Those Who Work Her -- Chapter 6. Top Down or Bottom Up? -- Chapter 7. Making Work -- Chapter 8. Working Together -- Conclusion -- Glossary -- References -- Index