Another Production is Possible Paperback by Boaventura de Sousa Santos

Product Details

• Publisher: Verso (2007-08-17)
• Language: English
• Paperback: 488 pages
• ISBN-13: 9781844671489
• Item Weight: 816.48 grams
• Dimensions: 23.37 x 15.49 x 3.81 cm

This is the second volume, after Democratizing Democracy, of the collection Reinventing Social Emancipation: Towards New Manifestoes.Here, the author examines alternative models to capitalist developmentthrough case studies of collective land management, cooperatives ofgarbage collectors and women’s agricultural cooperatives. He alsoanalyzes the changing capital-labor conflict of the past two decadesand the way labor solidarity is reconstituting itself under new formsfrom Brazil to Mozambique and South Africa.

About the Author

Boaventura de Sousa Santos is Professor of Sociology at the University of Coimbra (Portugal) and ILS Distinguished Scholar at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He has been an active participant in the World Social Forum. His books include Toward a New Legal Common Sense: Law, Globalization and Emancipation.