ABSTRACT
This highly topical volume, with contributions from leading experts in the field, explores a variety of questions about membership based organizations of the poor. Analyzing their success and failure and the internal and external factors that play a part, it uses studies from both developed and developing countries.
Put together by a group of prestigious editors, the contributors address a range of questions, including:
- What structures and activities characterize MBOPs?
- What is meant by success and what factors account for success?
- What are the internal (governance structure and leadership) and external (policy environment) factors that account for success?
- Are these factors replicable across countries or even within countries?
- What are the constraints to successful MBOPs expanding, or to new ones being formed?
- What sort of policy environment enables the success of MBOPs and the formation of successful MBOPs?
- What types of institutional reforms are needed to ensure the representation of the poor through their own MBOs?
This is an insightful work, that will be invaluable for students and researchers studying or working in the areas of international and development economics and development studies.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part I|20 pages
Introduction and overview
part II|42 pages
General principles
part III|39 pages
Trade unions
chapter 4|18 pages
Working class struggles, labour elites, and closed shops
part IV|52 pages
Cooperatives
chapter 7|16 pages
Co-operatives and the emancipation of the marginalized
part V|63 pages
Small self-help groups
part VI|60 pages
Campaigning organizations
chapter 12|19 pages
Shack/Slum Dwellers International
chapter 14|18 pages
Informal governance and organizational success
part VII|98 pages
Local power structures and MBOPs