About This Book
A young man raised on a farm and a progressive young woman collaborate to found a cooperative agricultural community that reimagines rural life. The narrative combines their developing relationship with detailed programs for shared ownership, local scrip, cooperative insurance, education, clubs, a kindergarten, and better roads. Episodes alternate scenes of social festivals and personal moments with practical discussions of economics and ethics to show how cooperation might counter land monopoly, ease isolation, and reconcile capital and labor. The story closes with the community's apparent success and an appeal for broader social reform rooted in cooperative institutions and popular education.
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