Comments on: Book review: Uncovering the Hidden History of Cooperation, Cooperative Movements, and Communalism in America https://blog.p2pfoundation.net/john-curl-for-all-the-people/2009/11/18 Researching, documenting and promoting peer to peer practices Thu, 19 Nov 2009 09:52:13 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.5.14 By: Thomas Eicher https://blog.p2pfoundation.net/john-curl-for-all-the-people/2009/11/18/comment-page-1#comment-419665 Thu, 19 Nov 2009 09:52:13 +0000 http://blog.p2pfoundation.net/?p=5941#comment-419665 Thanks for the excellent review. I finished the book a couple of weeks ago and found it fascinating. Readers of this book might also find Jobs of Our Own: Building a Stakeholder Society: Alternatives to the Market and the State by Race Mathews interesting. A new edition was published by the Distributist Review Press recently(ISBN-10: 0967970792).

]]> By: P.M.Lawrence https://blog.p2pfoundation.net/john-curl-for-all-the-people/2009/11/18/comment-page-1#comment-419656 Wed, 18 Nov 2009 23:23:37 +0000 http://blog.p2pfoundation.net/?p=5941#comment-419656 “In the artisan manufactories that prevailed into the early 19th century, most of the physical capital required for production was owned by the work force; artisan laborers could walk out and essentially take the firm with them in all but name”.

Those did not prevail then, the putting out system did. And capital will not become superfluous, although it is quite possible that its cost will fall and it will become more widely accessible if it becomes easier to make operating equipment. Even so, working capital is likely to stay at similar prices relative to operators’ other costs (like wages paid to themselves); traditionally, funding the working capital cycle was banks’ core business activity, and it is likely to remain so – and thus captive to them – unless there are changes in that area too.

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