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Download or read book Getting Ahead Collectively written by Albert O. Hirschman and published by Elsevier. This book was released on 2013-10-22 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Getting Ahead Collectively: Grassroots Experiences in Latin America is a seven-chapter book that first discusses certain types of developmental sequences in Latin America. The emergence of cooperative action and the intangible benefits and costs of cooperatives are then explained. The book also explores the ""intermediate"" organizations that have grown all over Latin America to help low-income people better their condition. The last chapter details the social and political effects of a dense network of grassroots development efforts.