Work, Cooperatives, and Globalization
Posted on August 29th, 2009 by GD
John Curl, a woodworker and historian, has published a new book with PM Press, For All the People: Uncovering the Hidden History of Cooperation, Cooperative Movements, and Communalism in America. Journalist Richard Brenneman of the Berkeley Daily Planet interviewed Curl at Heartwood Cooperative Woodshop. Curl told his interviewer:
“In the globalized corporate world, either you’re an employee or you’re marginalized, a ‘useless person,’” he said, and one of the consequences is perennial unemployment. “Capitalism can’t live without unemployment,” he said.
The interview contains several such nuggets. Take a look.
Source
Richard Brenneman, Passion for Community Revealed in Curl’s History of Co-ops, Berkeley Daily Planet, Aug. 27-Sept. 2, 2009.
