For all the people : uncovering the hidden history of cooperation, cooperative movements, and communalism in America

" ... documents the multigenerational struggle of the American working people for social justice from the colonial workshop to the modern mass-assembly line, ultimately painting a vivid panorama of those who built the United States and those who will shape its future. John Curl, with over forty years of experience as both an active member and historian of cooperatives, presents the definitive history from below of cooperative America." -- Back cover.