Co-op
The People's Business
Johnston Birchall(Author)
Manchester University Press
Published on 16. June 1994
Book
Paperback/Softback
200 pages
978-0-7190-3861-7 (ISBN)
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.
More details
Language
English
Place of publication
Manchester
United Kingdom
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
40 colour illustrations, 160 b&w illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 276 mm
Width: 216 mm
ISBN-13
978-0-7190-3861-7 (9780719038617)
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Schweitzer Classification
Content
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.