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