List of Figuresxi
List of Tablesxiii
About the Contributorsxv
Foreword: Research in the Sociology of Organizationsxix
“What If” and “If Only” Futures beyond Conventional Capitalism and Bureaucracy: Imagining Collectivist and Democratic Possibilities for Organizing 
Katherine K. Chen and Victor Tan Chen1
Part I Working: Enacting Collectivist-Democratic Practices Through Everyday Interactions
The Emotional Dynamics of Workplace Democracy: Emotional Labor, Collective Effervescence, and Commitment at Work 
Katherine Sobering31
Resisting Work Degeneration in Collectivist-Democratic Organizations: Craft Ethics in a French Cooperative Sheet-metal Factory 
Stéphane Jaumier and Thibault Daudigeos55
Part II Networking: Connecting Communities through Collectivist-Democratic Practices
Moral Community as a Yardstick for Alternative Organizations: Evaluating Employee Ownership and its Place within the Socioeconomic Order 
Jonathan Preminger83
The Iron Cage Has a Mezzanine: Collectivist-Democratic Organizations and the Selection of Isomorphic Pressures via Meta-Organization 
Carla Young113
A Matrix Form of Multi-Organizational Hybridity in a Cooperative-Union Venture 
James M. Mandiberg and Seon Mi Kim141
Economic Democracy, Embodied: A Union Co-op Strategy for the Long-term Care Sector 
Sanjay Pinto163
Part III Reworking: Challenging and Transforming Capitalist Economies through Collectivist-Democratic Practices
Organizational Infrastructures for Economic Resilience: Alternatives to Shareholder Value-oriented Corporations and Unemployment Trajectories in the US during the Great Recession 
Marc Schneiberg187
It Takes More Than a Village: The Creation and Expansion of Alternative Organizational Forms in Brazil 
M. Paola Ometto, Asma Zafar and Leanne Hedberg229
Ownership and Mission Drift in Alternative Enterprises: The Case of a Social Banking Network 
Jason Spicer and Christa R. Lee-Chuvala257
Participatory Democratic Organizations Everywhere: A Harbinger of Social Change? 
Joyce Rothschild293
Index303

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