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The origins of the next radical economy is rooted in a tradition that has empowered people for centuries and is now making a comeback.

A new feudalism is on the rise. While monopolistic corporations feed their spoils to the rich, more and more of us are expected to live gig to gig. But, as Nathan Schneider shows, an alternative to the robber-baron economy is hiding in plain sight; we just need to know where to look.

Cooperatives are jointly owned, democratically controlled enterprises that advance the economic, social, and cultural interests of their members. They often emerge during moments of crisis not unlike our own, putting people in charge of the workplaces, credit unions, grocery stores, healthcare, and utilities they depend on.

Everything for Everyone chronicles this revolution -- from taxi cooperatives keeping Uber at bay, to an outspoken mayor transforming his city in the Deep South, to a fugitive building a fairer version of Bitcoin, to the rural electric co-op members who are propelling an aging system into the future. As these pioneers show, co-ops are helping us rediscover our capacity for creative, powerful, and fair democracy.

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Uber, but driver-owned Green Taxi drivers come from 37 countries especially East African ones. In a moment when the taxi industry here and virtually everywhere faces an existential disruption from Silicon Valley apps, these immigrant workers are self-funding a business model that puts them in control, turning Uber’s model on its head. They hope that without bosses skimming profits they’ll be able to take home enough to make driving a decent livelihood in the age of apps—with an app of their own. They’re wagering they can fight automation with democracy and shared ownership.	An integral economy In and around Barcelona, young people have organized the Catalan Integral Cooperative to model a new way of working on their own terms. These farmers, techies, shopkeepers, and more trade with their own digital currency, provide for their own health services, manage budgets by consensus, and more. Now, thanks to the rise of cryptocurrencies akin to Bitcoin, they have been trying to expand their model into an alternative global financial system.	Rural electricity Jim Heneghan at the controls of a DMEA hydro plant. Like most electric 'distribution' co‑ops, DMEA is a member owner of a larger 'generation and transmission' co‑op, or G&T. The contract DMEA has with its G&T, Tri‑State, specifies that Tri‑State must provide at least 95 percent of the energy DMEA sells. This has long been a sensible arrangement; distribution co‑ops don’t have the resources to run big power plants, and a near monopoly helps the G&T, and thus its forty‑three member co‑ops, obtain affordable financing from the government, the cooperative banks, and private markets.


A business school in Kenya Today, nearly half of Kenya’s gross domestic product flows through cooperatives, and the International Labour Organization estimates that 63 percent of the population derives a livelihood from them. The historic dominance of farming co‑ops is giving way to the finance sector, which ranges from my driver’s small SACCO to the Cooperative Bank, the country’s fourth‑largest financial institution. Kenyan co‑ops organize themselves into a series of federations according to sector and region, which in turn join to form an apex federation, the Cooperative Alliance of Kenya. The International Cooperative Alliance also has a regional office in Nairobi.	The radical mayors of Jackson, Mississippi Mayor Chokwe Lumumba was elected on a platform to make Jackson, Mississippi, a model for radical politics and economics through locally owned and governed cooperative business, aimed especially to empower Jackson’s black majority. And then he died after just a few months in office. His son, Chokwe Antar Lumumba, is now Jackson’s mayor and is carrying forward his father’s program. This is part of a long tradition of deep connection between struggles for civil rights in the United States and the development of cooperative economic alternatives.	Monasteries for the internet age In early 2014, the ancient caves of Matera, Italy, became home to an experiment: an unMonastery, the first of its kind. For the dozen or so unMonks who moved there from across Europe and North America, plus the hundreds following their progress online, it carried the quixotic hope of an underemployed generation struggling to find meaning and livelihoods in the years after the global financial crisis, in a time of ever more powerful tech platforms. Drawing on ancient traditions, they lived together, built open source tools, and forged a tech culture that inverted the image of Silicon Valley.

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Nathan Schneider is a journalist and professor of media studies at the University of Colorado Boulder. He has written for publications including Harper's, the New Republic, the Nation, the New York Times, and the Catholic Worker. Everything for Everyone is his third book. Schneider lives in Boulder, CO. --This text refers to an alternate kindle_edition edition.

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"A gifted writer, chronicling the world he and his compatriots are helping to make--spiritual, technological, communal."―Krista Tippett, host of NPR's On Being

"If Walter Kaufmann and Annie Dillard had a love child, it would be Nathan Schneider. Part philosophy junkie, part spiritual seeker, all journalist."―Kathryn Lofton, Yale University

"Everything for Everyone proves how our vested interests are best served by addressing our common ones. In Schneider's compelling take on the origins and future of cooperativism, working together isn't just something we do in hard times, but the key to a future characterized by abundance and distributed prosperity. We owe ourselves, and one another, this practical wisdom."―Douglas Rushkoff, author of Throwing Rocks at the Google Bus

"Everything for Everyone lives up to its title. This is no paean to the neoliberal 'gig economy' but rather an historical and contemporary tour of the radical potential of cooperative economics to disrupt capitalism as we know it. It is a book for everyone and a book for our times: read it, share it, but don't just talk about it. Commons for all!"―Robin D. G. Kelley, author of Freedom Dreams: The Black Radical Imagination

"People have always fought to forge economies based on cooperation and creativity, rather than domination and exclusion. But that work has never looked so urgent as it does today. Charting a wealth of renewable ideas, tools, and commitments that are poised to reinvent democracy, Schneider tackles an immense subject with precision and grace."―Naomi Klein, author of No Is Not Enough and This Changes Everything

"Nathan Schneider is one of our era's foremost chroniclers of social movements. Always engaging and analytically insightful, there's simply no one I'd trust more to guide me through the latest iteration of the longstanding, international, and utterly urgent struggle to build a more cooperative world and reclaim our common wealth."―Astra Taylor, author of The People's Platform

"The time has never been better for cooperative enterprise to change how we do business. This is a guide to how a new generation is starting to make that promise into a reality."―Jeremy Rifkin

"[An] invaluable study."―New York Journal of Books --This text refers to an alternate kindle_edition edition.

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Nathan Schneider is an assistant professor of media studies at the University of Colorado Boulder who writes about economy, technology, and religion. His articles have appeared in publications including Harper’s, The Nation, The New Republic, The Chronicle of Higher Education, The New York Times, The New Yorker, The Catholic Worker, and others. He writes regular columns for America, a national Catholic weekly, and he is a contributing editor for YES! Magazine. In 2015, he co-organized “Platform Cooperativism,” a pioneering conference on democratic online platforms at The New School. Follow his work on social media at @ntnsndr or at his website, nathanschneider.info.

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SIMON

The history, present, and possible future of economic frontiersmanship

Reviewed in the United States on October 4, 2018

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I read this book on the heels of Kate Raworth's excellent Doughnut Economics in the pursuit of possible answers to her final chapter's call to discover distributive and regenerative economic models. Before reading Schneider's book, I still had the common prejudice, since childhood, that coops were second-rate substitutes for "real" grocery stores and banks, but knew nothing of the history and scope of cooperatives, especially in America. I knew nothing of their role in pioneering the rural economies that grew into many of our modern cities and industries. This form of economic frontiersmanship is much older than the traditional firm and addresses many of the shortcomings of investor-owned enterprises--whose in-built positive-feedback loops of shareholder growth have crossed the limits of social-environmental sustainability. Schneider is also candid about revealing their shortcomings too--namely, their tendency to become more conservative of innovation than their creatively-destructing capitalist big brothers, and the immaturity of their ways to raise capital, which stymies their startup potential. I shall be returning to this book for inspiration.

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Cameron

important writing for future cooperators

Reviewed in the United States on December 7, 2018

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This book is an accessible journey though the author's journalistic experience with the cooperative world, with a special focus on digital platform cooperatives. The first chapter is an extremely helpful summary of cooperative history. Remaining chapters discuss idealistic roots of some cooperators, how digital platforms swallow industries, how open source software is only a partial solution, and how new platform cooperatives might be a solution to concentrations of power we find in our society.

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Emily Evans

Waste of time

Reviewed in the United States on December 17, 2018

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I run a business and I have been trying to figure out how to transition it to an employee-owned company. This book is nothing more than a history lesson and provides little to no insight on the machinations of a coop structure.

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William Hart

Reads like a memoir or a picaresque novel!

Reviewed in the United States on August 14, 2019

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I wish more academic writing would be this fun to read! Schneider takes us along on his personal journey across continents to discover, describe and understand the myriad ways of owning and distributing wealth.

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Christopher Rudolph

Cooperative Economics

Reviewed in the United States on September 12, 2018

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This is the wave of the future! The key to maximizing abundance for all! A must read!

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Colette L Slade

Very informative

Reviewed in the United States on December 7, 2020

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Well written. Well documented. A must read for anyone interested in cooperatives.

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Important history on a hot topic

Reviewed in the United States on June 27, 2019

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Great topic, great coverage, thoughtful and diverse cultural perspectives. Reads a bit like a collection of essays, which is mostly is, rather than as a cohesive book. Still def worth the .read

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A must-read book for concerned Americans, and a fun read as well

Reviewed in the United States on July 25, 2018

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The Problem, as described in Everything for Everyone, is that modern capitalism has become an enemy to democracy and culture. The book refers to the American economy as “A new feudalism on the rise” where “monopolistic corporations feed their spoils to the rich [while] more and more of us are expected to live gig to gig.” It traces the history of the idea that the best societies exist where the people share “all things in common”, from medieval monasteries and guilds to modern urban taxi cooperatives that take on Uber, from “freespace” supporters in San Francisco to online platforms, and numerous other examples.

The Solution, in this book, is cooperatives, groups run by people—not dominating corporations controlled by a hierarchy of the elite few. Based on the marketing copy, the book appeared to me to promote a utopia for utopians, which coincides nicely with the increasing popularity of socialism in the Democratic Party. The subtitle (“The Radical Tradition that Is Shaping the Next Economy”) predicts that this Solution is the clear way forward, toward a better future. And the author’s most recent book before this one, entitled Thank You, Anarchy: Notes from the Occupy Apocalypse, seems to reinforce this impression. But Everything for Everyone is a lot deeper than it seemed at first glance.

Indeed, as I read, I found myself marking numerous sentences, paragraphs, and quotes for future reference. The book is a treasure-trove of thinking on modern problems—clearly coming from a place Left of Center, but not patently anti-capitalist. Again, given the marketing copy, this surprised me. For example, while promoting the virtues of cooperation in very progressive-sounding language, the author also wrote: “Does cooperation count as capitalism, or something else?... If capitalism means freely associating in the economy, or ingenuity and innovation, or the rough-and-tumble of setting up a business, or price-based reasoning—then yes, cooperation overlaps with it. But if capitalism means a system in which the pursuit of profit for investors is the overriding concern, cooperation is an intrusion.”

The term “capitalism” is often used in different ways by different people, and has evolved over time. Free Enterprise Capitalism (“freely associating in the economy… ingenuity and innovation… the rough-and-tumble of setting up a business…”) is not the same thing as Crony Capitalism or what is sometimes termed “Corporate Capitalism”—where institutions with capital are treated differently by government, law, and the commercial code. In Free Enterprise Capitalism, all people and institutions are treated equally by the law; in Corporate Capitalism the rich are given special legal and financial benefits. In my view, the real negative isn’t what Schneider calls “the pursuit of profit as the overriding concern”, but rather these special legal benefits that are both undemocratic and also undermine Free Enterprise.

Overall, I consider this book a great read about our modern world. On the one hand, I heartily agree with its warning against the increasing dangers of government-by-corporate-powers, the Military-Industrial-Complex in it newest form, sometimes called The Black Box Society (another excellent book) or Government by Corporate Algorithm, or Crony/Corporate Capitalism. The idea that economic progress must be a top-down process controlled by elites—while most people struggle paycheck to paycheck—is the source of many of our modern problems.

At the same time, I have mixed feelings about some of the proposed solutions in Everything for Everyone. Just like capitalism can adopt the empowering Free Enterprise approach or succumb to the controlling Crony/Corporate/Elitist approach, cooperative organizations and co-ops can be either freedom-supporting or force-based. If the author is encouraging the first, I like it. If the second, not so much. From the book: “What would it take so that a can-do group of pioneers—people with a need to meet or an idea to share with the world—might conclude that the best, easiest way to build their business is by practicing democracy?” Again, these words lean toward freedom, and the idea of more entrepreneurs and owners in our business structures is appealing. Even necessary, I think. But how easily does this approach turn into force-based controls? Is this joint-ownership built on contract and market forces, or does it depend upon or even promote government forced “cooperation”? Both iterations will likely be applied.

On a side note, as I read Everything for Everyone, I kept thinking of another book, similar in some very important ways, entitled Beyond Capitalism & Socialism: A New Statement of an Old Ideal , edited by Tobias J. Lanz. These two books are worth reading together, comparing and contrasting. Also throw in the book Give People Money: How a Universal Basic Income Would End Poverty, Revolutionize Work, and Remake the World , by Annie Lowry, which I reviewed earlier this year.

Finally, in addition to the important ways Everything for Everyone contributes to the discussion of where we want our economy to go, it is also an important book about current politics. For those on the Left, it shares a number of ways people are trying to seek a better economic model for the future—real people, doing real projects. This provides the most value in the book, in my opinion. For those on the Right, it strips away many of the stereotypes and misconceptions about the modern Left, the mainstream media version, and will help conservatives understand more deeply what a lot of those on the Left are really about. Understanding this is important.

This is a must-read book for concerned Americans, and a fun read as well. It is well written, interesting, and constantly thought-provoking. I disagree with many of the conclusions, but I consider it a very important book.

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Must read for anyone interested in new and old co-operatives

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on October 28, 2019

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Great overview of the broad variety of forms co-operatives can take and the problems they can solve.

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