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Call
for papers for the International Conference on, ‘Cooperatives in Transition
in the Era of Globalisation’, Organised by The Uralungal Labour Contract
Co-operative Society Ltd., Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai and
Indian Institute of Management, Kozhikode, 18th, 19th and 20th September,
2013, Kozhikode. |
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Cooperatives were the earliest form
of organisation of working people in the world. Over the years, they
exemplified the importance of worker cooperation and underlined the
potential of organisation, solidarity, mutual assistance and unity of
action of the working class in a capitalist society. Indeed, the idea
of cooperatives had its origins in utopian socialism; earliest proponents
of cooperatives held the romantic view that socialism can be grafted
into the capitalist system using cooperatives as an instrument. Yet,
even as they did not expect cooperatives to transform the capitalist
system, writers like Karl Marx never failed to appreciate the importance
of cooperatives in pioneering the collective management of social production.
We expect abstracts of research papers to reach us
by the 15th of April 2013. Short-listed abstracts should be developed
into full-length papers and sent to us by the 30th of June 2013. Scholars
are encouraged to send their abstracts along with the name of the author,
designation and contact details to ulccs2013@gmail.com.
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