Co-op : the people's business
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Co-op : the people's business
Manchester University Press , Distributed exclusively in the USA and Canada by St. Martin's Press, c1994
- : hbk
- : pbk
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Note
Bibliography: p.[209]-213
Includes index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
The "Co-op", one of the world's most successful businesses, has been a common experience for millions of working-class people in Britain since the beginning of the Industrial Revolution. This work celebrates, in words and pictures, the history of a social movement which began with shopkeeping and grew into a large-scale international business, completely owned and controlled by its customers. This title tells how this British invention spread across the world - from the 28 "Rochdale Pioneers" of 1844 to the 700 million members of today's International Co-operative Alliance - and how it was adapted to meet a variety of human needs, including worker, housing, fishing, agricultural and credit co-ops. It shows how, as a third way between capitalism and state control, co-operative businesses continue to transform the lives of the poorer people in the "Third World" and in the post-communist countries of Eastern Europe.
Table of Contents
- The origins of the Co-operation
- the philosophy of the Co-operation
- the Rochdale pioneers
- a retailing revolution
- a wider role in society
- in war and peace
- in war and peace again
- the growth of the international Co-operation
- the international movement today
- conclusion - the Rochdale legacy.
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