Mutual Aid Books

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Mutual Aid: Building Solidarity in This Crisis (And the Next) Mutual Aid: Building Solidarity in This Crisis (And the Next)
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avg rating 4.27 — 6,082 ratings — published 2020
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Mutual Aid: A Factor of Evolution Mutual Aid: A Factor of Evolution (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as mutual-aid)
avg rating 4.23 — 4,036 ratings — published 1891
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The Care Manifesto: The Politics of Interdependence The Care Manifesto: The Politics of Interdependence (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as mutual-aid)
avg rating 3.78 — 1,719 ratings — published 2020
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Care Work: Dreaming Disability Justice Care Work: Dreaming Disability Justice (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.52 — 5,163 ratings — published 2018
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How We Show Up: Reclaiming Family, Friendship, and Community How We Show Up: Reclaiming Family, Friendship, and Community (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as mutual-aid)
avg rating 4.22 — 3,700 ratings — published 2020
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Let This Radicalize You: Organizing and the Revolution of Reciprocal Care Let This Radicalize You: Organizing and the Revolution of Reciprocal Care (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as mutual-aid)
avg rating 4.51 — 3,116 ratings — published 2023
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The Serviceberry: Abundance and Reciprocity in the Natural World The Serviceberry: Abundance and Reciprocity in the Natural World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as mutual-aid)
avg rating 4.27 — 62,236 ratings — published 2024
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The Revolution Will Not Be Funded: Beyond the Non-Profit Industrial Complex The Revolution Will Not Be Funded: Beyond the Non-Profit Industrial Complex (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.29 — 2,455 ratings — published 2007
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Joyful Militancy: Building Thriving Resistance in Toxic Times (Anarchist Interventions) Joyful Militancy: Building Thriving Resistance in Toxic Times (Anarchist Interventions)
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avg rating 4.36 — 908 ratings — published 2017
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We Do This 'til We Free Us: Abolitionist Organizing and Transforming Justice We Do This 'til We Free Us: Abolitionist Organizing and Transforming Justice (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.63 — 6,026 ratings — published 2021
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Practicing Cooperation: Mutual Aid beyond Capitalism (Diverse Economies and Livable Worlds) Practicing Cooperation: Mutual Aid beyond Capitalism (Diverse Economies and Livable Worlds)
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avg rating 4.71 — 7 ratings — published
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No More Heroes: Grassroots Challenges to the Savior Mentality No More Heroes: Grassroots Challenges to the Savior Mentality (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.11 — 309 ratings — published 2016
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From Mutual Aid to the Welfare State: Fraternal Societies and Social Services, 1890-1967 From Mutual Aid to the Welfare State: Fraternal Societies and Social Services, 1890-1967 (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.05 — 59 ratings — published 2000
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Undoing Border Imperialism (Anarchist Interventions, 6) Undoing Border Imperialism (Anarchist Interventions, 6)
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avg rating 4.51 — 525 ratings — published 2013
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Pandemic Solidarity: Mutual Aid during the Coronavirus Crisis (FireWorks) Pandemic Solidarity: Mutual Aid during the Coronavirus Crisis (FireWorks)
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avg rating 4.04 — 28 ratings — published
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Living at the Edges of Capitalism: Adventures in Exile and Mutual Aid Living at the Edges of Capitalism: Adventures in Exile and Mutual Aid (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.38 — 24 ratings — published
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A Paradise Built in Hell: The Extraordinary Communities That Arise in Disaster A Paradise Built in Hell: The Extraordinary Communities That Arise in Disaster (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.95 — 3,963 ratings — published 2009
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Don't Leave Your Friends Behind: Concrete Ways to Support Families in Social Justice Movements and Communities Don't Leave Your Friends Behind: Concrete Ways to Support Families in Social Justice Movements and Communities (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.04 — 112 ratings — published 2012
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On Conflict and Consensus: a handbook on Formal Consensus decisionmaking On Conflict and Consensus: a handbook on Formal Consensus decisionmaking (PDF)
by (shelved 2 times as mutual-aid)
avg rating 4.38 — 24 ratings — published 1987
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Bowling Alone: The Collapse and Revival of American Community Bowling Alone: The Collapse and Revival of American Community (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as mutual-aid)
avg rating 3.85 — 9,256 ratings — published 2000
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What Lies Beneath: Katrina, Race, and the State of the Nation What Lies Beneath: Katrina, Race, and the State of the Nation (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.95 — 64 ratings — published 2007
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Regulating the Poor: The Functions of Public Welfare Regulating the Poor: The Functions of Public Welfare (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.24 — 321 ratings — published 1971
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The Failure of Nonviolence: From the Arab Spring to Occupy The Failure of Nonviolence: From the Arab Spring to Occupy (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.87 — 150 ratings — published 2013
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Before AIDS: Gay Health Politics in the 1970s Before AIDS: Gay Health Politics in the 1970s (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 4.00 — 11 ratings — published
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Gay, Inc.: The Nonprofitization of Queer Politics Gay, Inc.: The Nonprofitization of Queer Politics (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as mutual-aid)
avg rating 4.46 — 54 ratings — published 2018
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Hope for Cynics: The Surprising Science of Human Goodness Hope for Cynics: The Surprising Science of Human Goodness (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.89 — 2,320 ratings — published
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The Black Panther Party: Service to the People Programs The Black Panther Party: Service to the People Programs (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.55 — 113 ratings — published 2008
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Unlearning Shame: How We Can Reject Self-Blame Culture and Reclaim Our Power Unlearning Shame: How We Can Reject Self-Blame Culture and Reclaim Our Power (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.20 — 1,215 ratings — published
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Stir It Up: Lessons in Community Organizing and Advocacy Stir It Up: Lessons in Community Organizing and Advocacy (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.05 — 155 ratings — published 2003
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The Day the World Stops Shopping: How Ending Consumerism Saves the Environment and Ourselves The Day the World Stops Shopping: How Ending Consumerism Saves the Environment and Ourselves (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.14 — 5,157 ratings — published 2021
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The Upswing: How America Came Together a Century Ago and How We Can Do It Again The Upswing: How America Came Together a Century Ago and How We Can Do It Again (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.94 — 1,518 ratings — published 2020
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Better Together Better Together (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.75 — 410 ratings — published 2003
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Family Abolition: Capitalism and the Communizing of Care Family Abolition: Capitalism and the Communizing of Care (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.15 — 243 ratings — published 2023
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The Garden Against Time: In Search of a Common Paradise The Garden Against Time: In Search of a Common Paradise (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.86 — 3,898 ratings — published 2024
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Intervals Intervals (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 4.40 — 368 ratings — published
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Abolition and Social Work: Possibilities, Paradoxes, and the Practice of Community Care Abolition and Social Work: Possibilities, Paradoxes, and the Practice of Community Care (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.71 — 58 ratings — published
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Heaven Is a Place on Earth Heaven Is a Place on Earth (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.92 — 213 ratings — published 2022
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Saving Our Own Lives: A Liberatory Practice of Harm Reduction Saving Our Own Lives: A Liberatory Practice of Harm Reduction (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 4.47 — 297 ratings — published 2022
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Abolish the Family: A Manifesto for Care and Liberation Abolish the Family: A Manifesto for Care and Liberation (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.68 — 1,789 ratings — published 2022
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Pivot Points: Creating A Culture Of Preparedness And Resiliency In America Pivot Points: Creating A Culture Of Preparedness And Resiliency In America (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as mutual-aid)
avg rating 4.50 — 18 ratings — published 2015
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There Goes the Neighborhood There Goes the Neighborhood (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.08 — 697 ratings — published 2023
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Social Justice for the Sensitive Soul: How to Change the World in Quiet Ways Social Justice for the Sensitive Soul: How to Change the World in Quiet Ways (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 3.97 — 898 ratings — published 2023
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Rest Is Resistance: A Manifesto Rest Is Resistance: A Manifesto (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.04 — 12,642 ratings — published 2022
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Radical Friendship: Seven Ways to Love Yourself and Find Your People in an Unjust World Radical Friendship: Seven Ways to Love Yourself and Find Your People in an Unjust World (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.12 — 465 ratings — published 2021
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The Art of Gathering: How We Meet and Why It Matters The Art of Gathering: How We Meet and Why It Matters (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.95 — 28,685 ratings — published 2018
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History and Manual of Odd Fellowship History and Manual of Odd Fellowship (Paperback)
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avg rating 0.0 — 0 ratings — published 2015
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Rebecca Solnit
“Mutual aid [called this in Kropotkin's 1902 Mutual Aid: A Factor of Evolution] means that every participant is both giver and recipient in acts of care that bind them together, as distinct from the one-way street of charity.”
Rebecca Solnit, A Paradise Built in Hell: The Extraordinary Communities That Arise in Disaster

Blaine Harden
“Their relationship echoed, in many ways, the binds of trust and mutual protection that kept prisoners alive and sane in Nazi concentration camps. In those camps, researchers found, the "basic unit of survival" was the pair, not the individual.”
Blaine Harden, Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West

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