This is the second volume, after Democratizing Democracy, of the collection Reinventing Social Emancipation: Towards New Manifestoes.Here, the author examines alternative models to capitalist developmentthrough case studies of collective land management, cooperatives ofgarbage collectors and women's agricultural cooperatives. He alsoanalyzes the changing capital-labor conflict of the past two decadesand the way labor solidarity is reconstituting itself under new formsfrom Brazil to Mozambique and South Africa.

Contributions by: Aníbal Quijano, César Rodríguez-Garavito, Edward Webster, Francisco de Oliveira, Gabriele Dietrich, Heinz Klug, Hermes Augusto Costa, Horácio Martins de Carvalho, João Marcos de Almeida Lopes, Nalini Nayak, Paul Singer, Peter Waterman, Rob Lambert, Roberto Véras, Sharit Bhowmik, Teresa Cruz e Silva, Zander Navarro