Social Alternatives in Southern Europe and Latin America

Montserrat Duch-Plana is a professor at Rovira i Virgili University. Her main areas of research are the social history of the 20th century, memory policies, and the public uses of history and the history of women. Josep M. Pons-Altés is a professor at Rovira i Virgili University. His main areas of research are contemporary history of Catalonia and didactics of the social sciences.

Introduction 1. Comparative Notes on the History of the Social and Solidarity Economy in Latin Europe 2. The Old and New Uses of Communal Lands: How to Escape Commodification? 3. Mutuality and Cooperation in the Transition to Modernity (Portugal, 1834–1934) 4. From Associationism to the Solidarity Economy: A Historical Perspective 5. Hybridisation, Social Innovation and Commoning: The Experience of the Italian Cooperative Enterprises at the Turn of the Millennium 6. Mutualism in Chile, 1848–1990: Social Security, Sociopolitical Movement, and Space of Sociability in the Working Class 7. From Cooperation to Workers’ Control: “Defending Sources of Employment” in Argentina 8. Mutual Benefit Societies in Spain from the Ancien Régime to 1936: Three Decades of Studies 9. Associationism, Mutualism, and Cooperativism in Catalonia, 1868–1938 10. Origins and Diversity of Cooperative Practices Between Pupils in France: Towards a Didactics of Cooperation 11. Cooperation Between Pupils, a Comparative View: Spain, France and Italy