Cooperation and Community in the Thought of J.S. Woodsworth
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 7327769 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Allen Mills, Andrew Mills (0000-0003-4880-7332, University of Winnipeg, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1984 |
| Volume | 14 |
| Pages | 103-103 |
| Publication date | 1984-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Labour / Le Travail (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0700-3862 • E-ISSN: 1911-4842 |
| Publisher | JSTOR (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/25140483 |
| OpenAlex | W1591313346 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
THE CONCEPT OF COOPERATION was commonly employed by the Left in Canada in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. In this paper I have examined how J.S. Woodsworth used this notion. In fact, he used it in three different ways. One, however, predominated; that is, the idea of cooperation as industrial centralization and integration, monopolies, planning and managerial directedness. Cooperation, and by implication his theory of community, thus became subsumed in an image of industrial society that was hierarchical, coercive, centralist, and bureaucratic. Moreover, I argue that Woodsworth's theories of cooperation and community show an intellectual affinity with certain liberal views of social reality, views that were utilitarian, instrumentalist and individualist. AU CANADA, VERS LA FIN DU XIXe et au debut du XXe siecles, la Gauche faisait souvent allusion au concept de la cooperation. La presente etude porte justement sur l'emploi que faisait de ce concept, J.S. Woodsworth. En effet, ce dernier donnait au concept trois sens differents; cependant, pour lui la cooperation signifait le plus frequemment centralisation et integration, monopoles, planification et dirigisme. C'est ainsi que la cooperation — d'ou decoule implicitement la theorie de la communication de Woodsworth — s'est vue incorporer a une image de la societe qui s'averait hierarchique, coercitive, centraliste et bureaucratique. Qui plus est, les theories de la cooperation et de la communaute que proposait Woodsworth revelent, me semble-t-il, un rapport intellectuel avec certaines attitudes sur la realite sociale d'ordre liberal, attitudes qui sont a vrai dire utilitaires, instrumentalistes et individualistes
Epistemology · Political science · Sociology · Canadian Identity and History · Historical and Literary Studies · Philosophy · Psychology
| Unique citing works | 3 |
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| Citations per year | 0,07 |
| Citation span | 1986 - 2016 (31) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 3 |