Everything for Everyone, Nathan Schneider
Everything for Everyone, Nathan Schneider
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Everything for Everyone
The Radical Tradition That Is Shaping the Next Economy

Author: Nathan Schneider

Narrator: Matt Amendt

Unabridged: 9 hr 51 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 09/11/2018

Includes: Bonus Material Bonus Material Included

Synopsis

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.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Paul on April 01, 2019

If you’re looking for a how to manual, this book may disappoint. If you’re seeking clear chapters that break down specific categories of co-ops, it may also slip away from you. (Many parts of chapters were reconfigured from the author’s previous essays). Also, if you’re looking for a formula or mode......more

Goodreads review by Michael on October 25, 2018

Fantastic book! I live in the same town as the Author and really appreciated all of the local knowledge. I loved learning about all the different Co-Op incarnations and projects along w/ the challenges that face these unique companies. I HIGHLY recommend reading this book!......more

Goodreads review by Maggie on April 18, 2023

Learned a lot but this book was a bit hard to follow for me. Not that the ideas were too complicated, just that the stories and examples were overwhelming and made it hard for me to remember the central themes......more

Goodreads review by Andrew on October 22, 2023

Nathan Schnieder's book is an important read for anybody thinking about where our economy has gone and where it ought to go. He does a deep dive into cooperative movements, beginning with their storied history and delving into how they might serve "as a test run[] for the social contracts that may l......more

Goodreads review by Russell on May 19, 2021

A very enjoyable survey of the wide variety of cooperative enterprises and organizations throughout history, with some good analysis along the way. I think Schneider basically faces a couple of tensions in his celebration of America's and the world's history of cooperativism, whether through credit......more

Quotes

"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 RadicalImagination

"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 ThisChanges 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."—AstraTaylor, 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 ofBooks

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