Working Alternatives explores economic life from a multidisciplinary and humanistic perspective, with a particular eye on religions¿ implications in practices of work, management, supply, production, remuneration, and exchange. Its contributors draw upon historical, ethical, business, and theological conversations considering the sources of economic sustainability and justice.

IntroductionJohn C. Seitz and Christine Firer Hinze | 1PART I: SEEING DIFFERENTLY: ALTERNATIVE VISIONS OF ECONOMY AND WORKThe Care Economy as Alternative EconomySandra Sullivan-Dunbar | 21An Integral Ecology as the Ground for Good Business:Connecting Institutional Life in Light of Catholic Social TeachingsMichael Naughton | 45Inaugurating a "Bold Cultural Revolution" through Prayer and WorkNicholas Rademacher | 71Generative Businesses Fostering Vitality:Rethinking Businesses' Relationship to the WorldSandra Waddock | 96PART II: VALUING DIFFERENTLY: CHALLENGING WORK AND BUSINESS AS USUALThe Homemaker as Worker: Second Wave American FeministCampaigns to Value HouseworkKirsten Swinth | 121Curing the "Disease" in Corporatized Higher Education:Prescriptions from the Catholic Social TraditionGerald J. Beyer | 148Working Alternatives: From Capitalism to Humanistic Management?Michael Pirson | 189PART III: PRACTICING DIFFERENTLY: CREATING ALTERNATIVE WAYS OF WORKINGThe "Dignity of Motherhood" Demands Something Different:A Catholic Experiment in Reproductive Care in New MexicoKathleen Holscher | 225Southern Christian Work Camps and a Cold WarCampaign for Racial and Economic JusticeAlison Collis Greene | 253Meaningful Work in a Time of CrisisVincent Stanley | 280List of Contributors | 305Index | 309