Jobs of Our Own: Building a Stake Holders Society: Alternatives to the Market and the State

by Race Mathews

This study works from the premise that there is little enthusiasm today for massive state ownership, and no trust in the alternative of unbounded capitalism. Third Way proposals have often turned out to be no less sterile.

Genres: Politics, Economics

32 pages, Paperback

First published September 21, 1999

About the author

Charles Race Thorson Mathews was an Australian politician, academic, author and reformer. He was a member of Australia's Federal Parliament and the Victorian State Parliament for the Australian Labor Party (ALP).

Reviews

[Logan Streondj · Rating 4 out of 5]

Good overview of Distributism from conception to the 90's. It started with a Catholic Pope, then it got popular is Britain where some anti Semitic bigots liked to talk about it. Eventually it got to Canada via Tomkins who established the first cooperatives and credit unions. Later the carpet baggers joined the cooperatives and sold their assets to make a pretty penny.
And finally a Catholic priest started what has become the most successful co-op in the Basque homeland called Mondragon.
He left the book on a kind of uncertain note where maybe someone will figure it out.