Jobs of Our Own, by Race Mathews

Jobs of Our Own: Building a Stakeholder Society: Alternatives to the Market and the State, by Race Mathews (Irving, TX: Distributist Review Press, 2009)

Jobs of Our Own is definitely the best history of distributism I've ever read. The author first published it in his native Australia, and after the book went out of print, the Distributist Review Press decided to print an American edition. Of course, Australian typography is a bit different (take everything you know about single and double quotes, and any nearby punctuation, and reverse it). So we thought, if we have to reset it anyhow, why not "Americanize" while we're at it? Sure, just press the "Americanize" button ... or not.

I also updated/migrated/edited the book's index, and did some light editorial work on the manuscript. And I also got to design this book cover from scratch. The folks at Mondragon (the amazing Basque co-operative which, in some ways, is the hero of the book) helpfully sent me a digital pile of photos, and with that image of workers voting at their big business meeting, I couldn't go far wrong.