Co-op: The People's Business

by Johnston Birchall

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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.
  • ISBN10 0719044219
  • ISBN13 9780719044212
  • Publish Date 16 June 1994
  • Publish Status Out of Print
  • Out of Print 22 November 1999
  • Publish Country GB
  • Imprint Manchester University Press
  • Format Hardcover
  • Pages 200
  • Language English