Räthzel takes as her point of departure the everyday practices of progressive trade unionists, members of worker-owned cooperatives, and academics developing degrowth perspectives. She argues that in the nitty gritty of everyday life these progressive collectives tend to concentrate on just one dimension of the deep societal transformation that is necessary to confront the crisis of human survival on earth arising from the globalising destruction of workers and nature through the capitalist system of production. Given this unprecedented crisis, it does not suffice to bring together civil society and political organisations. What is necessary is practical cooperation on the level of the everyday, where different collectives can learn from each other and thereby broaden not only their knowledge of the way in which globalising Capital functions today, but also their abilities to create practices that integrate the transformation of working relations, technologies and production systems, with the transformation of the nature-work relationship as a whole. What is needed is not adding up different perspectives to create a mosaic, but integrating them to create complex, multifaceted alternatives. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]