Building on his highly original and always insightful earlier works on collective activity, in Origins of Collective Decision Making Andy Blunden turns his attention to the question of how groups make decisions. Examining three paradigms?Counsel, Majority, and Consensus based methods?Blunden discovers that each has unique ethical foundations, deeply rooted in the historical experiences of specific struggles.
Building on his highly original and always insightful earlier works on collective activity, in Origins of Collective Decision Making Andy Blunden turns his attention to the question of how groups make decisions. Examining three paradigms?Counsel, Majority, and Consensus based methods?Blunden discovers that each has unique ethical foundations, deeply rooted in the historical experiences of specific struggles.
Andy Blunden is an editor of the journal Mind, Culture, and Activity and Secretary of the Marxists Internet Archive. His previous work includes, An Interdisciplinary Theory of Activity (2010), Concepts: A Critical Approach (2012) and Collaborative Projects: An Interdisciplinary Study (2014).
Inhaltsangabe
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS PREFACE INTRODUCTION Collective Decision Making Realist Historical Investigation PART 1. MAJORITY The British Trade Unions in 1824 Anglo-Saxon England The Guilds The Methodist Church London Corresponding Society The Chartists The Communist Secret Societies The General Workers Unions The End of Uncritical Majoritarianism PART 2. CONSENSUS English Revolution and the Quakers The Quakers in Twentieth Century Pennsylvania New England Town Meetings The Peace and Civil Rights Movements Myles Horton and the Highlander The African and Slave Roots of the Black Baptist Churches Eleanor Garst and Women Strike for Peace The Quakers and Movement for a New Society Anarchism and Decision Making PART 3. THE POST WORLD WAR SETTLEMENT The Negation of Social Movements The Negation of Negation ? the rise of alliance politics Alliance politics CONCLUSION REFERENCES INDEX
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS PREFACE INTRODUCTION Collective Decision Making Realist Historical Investigation PART 1. MAJORITY The British Trade Unions in 1824 Anglo-Saxon England The Guilds The Methodist Church London Corresponding Society The Chartists The Communist Secret Societies The General Workers Unions The End of Uncritical Majoritarianism PART 2. CONSENSUS English Revolution and the Quakers The Quakers in Twentieth Century Pennsylvania New England Town Meetings The Peace and Civil Rights Movements Myles Horton and the Highlander The African and Slave Roots of the Black Baptist Churches Eleanor Garst and Women Strike for Peace The Quakers and Movement for a New Society Anarchism and Decision Making PART 3. THE POST WORLD WAR SETTLEMENT The Negation of Social Movements The Negation of Negation ? the rise of alliance politics Alliance politics CONCLUSION REFERENCES INDEX
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