Popular Participation in Social Change : Cooperatives, Collectives, and Nationalized Industry

Intro -- General Editor's Preface -- Preface -- INTRODUCTION -- Anthropological Approaches to the Study of Cooperatives, Collectives, and Self-Management -- SECTION ONE: THE INTRODUCTION OF COOPERATIVES INTO PEASANT SOCIETIES -- Organized Cooperation and Spontaneous Cooperation in Africa (Niger Republic) -- Traditional Social Structure and the Development of a Marketing Cooperative in Tanzania -- Traditional Collectivism and Modern Associations: The Example of Southern Dahomey -- Rural Competition and the Cooperative Monopoly: A Ugandan Case Study -- Participatory Decision Making and Modern Cooperatives in Mali: Notes Towards a Prospective Anthropology -- Peasant Response to Cooperativization Under Agrarian Reform in the Communities of the Peruvian Sierra -- Change in the Traditional Forms of Agrarian Collectivism in Spain: Theoretical and Methodological Considerations -- Cooperatives and Agricultural Development in Bangladesh -- SECTION TWO: THE TRANSFORMATION OF CAPITALIST AGRICULTURAL SYSTEMS INTO COOPERATIVES -- The Patron-Proletarian Nexus -- Persistence and Change in Structure and Values in the Sugar Plantations of Northern Peru -- United Workers Ltd., Campo de Herrera, Tucumán: The First Cooperative for Agricultural Work in Argentina, Five Years After Its Creation -- Peasant Cooperation in Land-Reform Programs: Some Latin American Experiences -- The Algerian Model of Agrarian Reorganization -- Centralization and Decentralization of Decision Making in an Experiment in Agricultural Cooperation in Tunisia -- Economic Dependency and the Failure of Cooperatives in Western Sicily -- SECTION THREE: MOVEMENTS, IDEOLOGY, AND COOPERATIVES -- The Strategy of Peasant Mobilization: Some Cases from Latin America and Southeast Asia -- Peasant Sindicatos and the Process of Cooptation in Bolivian Politics.