Author: chriswright

Since the financial crisis of 2008 and the global popular protests of 2011, more people have begun to wonder and speculate: what’s next for civilization? The economic, social, and political status quo seems unsustainable, but what can emerge to take its place? In this book, a historian examines the past and present to argue that the seeds of a more humane society are already being planted, on … local and international scales. Whether they will bear fruit depends, ultimately, on grassroots initiative.Focusing on the new worker cooperative movement in the West, this study not only contains the first systematic discussion…