Organizational Imaginaries

Chapter 1. "What If" and "If Only" Futures beyond Conventional Capitalism and Bureaucracy: Imagining Collectivist and Democratic Possibilities for Organizing; Katherine K. Chen and Victor Tan Chen

Part I: Working: Enacting Collectivist-Democratic Practices through Everyday Interactions

Chapter 2. The Emotional Dynamics of Workplace Democracy: Emotional Labor, Collective Effervescence, and Commitment At Work; Katherine Sobering

Chapter 3. Resisting Work Degeneration in Collectivist-Democratic Organizations: Craft Ethics in a French Cooperative Sheet-Metal Factory; Stephane Jaumier and Thibault Daudigeos

Part II: Networking: Connecting Communities through Collectivist-Democratic Practices

Chapter 4. Moral Community as a Yardstick for Alternative Organizations: Evaluating Employee Ownership and Its Place within the Socioeconomic Order; Jonathan Preminger

Chapter 5. The Iron Cage Has a Mezzanine: Collectivist-Democratic Organizations and the Selection of Isomorphic Pressures via Meta-Organization; Carla Ilten

Chapter 6. A Matrix Form of Multi-Organizational Hybridity in a Cooperative-Union Venture; James M. Mandiberg and Seon Mi Kim

Practitioner Perspective:

Chapter 7. Economic Democracy, Embodied: A Union Co-op Strategy for the Long-Term Care Sector; Sanjay Pinto

Part III: Reworking: Challenging and Transforming Capitalist Economies through Collectivist-Democratic Practices

Chapter 8. Organizational Infrastructures for Economic Resilience: Alternatives to Shareholder Value-Oriented Corporations and Unemployment Trajectories in the U.S. during the Great Recession; Marc Schneiberg

Chapter 9. It Takes More Than a Village: The Creation and Expansion of Alternative Organizational Forms in Brazil; M. Paola Ometto, Asma Zafar, and Leanne Hedberg

Chapter 10. Ownership and Mission Drift in Alternative Enterprises: The Case of a Social Banking Network; Jason Spicer and Christa R. Lee-Chuvala Epilogue

Chapter 11. Participatory Democratic Organizations Everywhere: A Harbinger of Social Change?; Joyce Rothschild