Postwar reconstruction committees voiced working-class demands for communal living and cooperative trade.

Evidence

In those early postwar years, all of these committees gave voice to a larger workingclass constituency that aimed to develop the foundations for a revolution in social life based on “cooperative buying and selling” and especially “the spread of communal living” (Ministry of Reconstruction Advisory Council 1919, 14). — Clara E. Mattei, The Capital Order, 295

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Postwar reconstructionists saw the war’s social gains as a foundation for permanent social justice — Clara E. Mattei, The Capital Order: How Economists…, 240; Postwar reconstruction planners treated women’s material conditions and communal life as grounds for emancipation. — Clara E. Mattei, The Capital Order: How Economists…, 292; Postwar workers demanded meaning and agency in production. (+5 more)

Broader Connections

• Postwar workers demanded meaning and agency in production. #corroborates (0.85)
• Postwar workers rejected labor as a commodity and demanded democratic control of production #corroborates (0.85) — Clara E. Mattei, Escape from Capitalism, 185
• Workers’ wartime indispensability empowered postwar demands to transform the economic system #corroborates (0.80) — Clara E. Mattei, Escape from Capitalism, 174
• Postwar German workers expected their factory to provide social belonging, not just wages #exemplifies (0.80) — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 2082