The Cooperative Movement
The Cooperative Movement

Author: Richard C. Williams

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2016-03-23

Total Pages: 284

ISBN-13: 131703726X

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Richard Williams surveys the history of the cooperative movement from its origins in the 18th century and deals with the theory of cooperation, as contrasted with the 'Standard Economic Model', based on competition. The book contains the results of field studies of a number of successful cooperatives both in the developed and developing world. It includes insights from personal interviews of cooperative members and concludes by considering the successes and challenges of the cooperative movement as an alternative to the global neo-colonialism and imperialism that now characterizes free-market capitalist approaches to globalization. The book considers democratic and local control of essential economic activities such as the production, distribution, and retailing of goods and services. It suggests that cooperative approaches to these economic activities are already reducing poverty and resulting in equitable distributions of wealth and income without plundering the resources of developing countries.

The Cooperative Business Movement, 1950 to the Present
The Cooperative Business Movement, 1950 to the Present

Author: Patrizia Battilani

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2012-08-27

Total Pages: 297

ISBN-13: 1139561278

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The United Nations declared 2012 the year of cooperatives, emphasizing that there is an alternative to privately owned firms. While greed and mismanagement have caused world financial and economic crises, co-ops offer another type of business for economic activities that is less exposed to aggressive capitalism. This book provides a problem-oriented overview of the development of cooperatives over the last fifty years. The global study addresses the major challenges cooperatives face, such as the organizational innovations introduced to acquire necessary risk-capital and implement growth-related strategies, the wave of demutualization in developed nations and their ability to construct an original consumer politics. The contributors to this volume discuss the successes and failures of the cooperatives and ask whether they are an outdated model of enterprise. They document a wave of foundations of new co-ops, new forms of collaboration between them and a growing trend toward globalization.

Cooperative Marketing of Fruits and Vegetables in India
Cooperative Marketing of Fruits and Vegetables in India

Author: K. V. Subrahmanyam

Publisher: Concept Publishing Company

Published: 2000

Total Pages: 166

ISBN-13: 9788170228202

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Describes the status of fruit and vegetable production in India and examines the development and status of cooperative marketing. Outlines the activities of three organizations which support cooperatives and provides case studies of four marketing cooperatives. Provides guidance on the planning and operation of these cooperatives.

The Cooperative Society
The Cooperative Society

Author: E. G. Nadeau

Publisher:

Published: 2016-09-01

Total Pages: 48

ISBN-13: 9780998066202

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In this book, we present a hypothesis that humans may be on the threshold of a new historical stage, one characterized by cooperation, democracy, the equitable distribution of resources, and a sustainable relationship with nature. We can act strategically on a range of activities to become a more cooperative society.

Rural Credit in Western India 1875–1930
Rural Credit in Western India 1875–1930

Author: I. J. Catanach

Publisher: Univ of California Press

Published: 2023-04-28

Total Pages: 282

ISBN-13: 0520327829

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This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1970.

Cooperative Rule
Cooperative Rule

Author: Aaron Windel

Publisher: Univ of California Press

Published: 2021-11-30

Total Pages: 273

ISBN-13: 0520381874

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Cooperative rule -- Pedagogies of community development -- Anti-empire, development, and emergency rule -- Uganda's anticolonial cooperative movement -- Cooperatives and decolonization in postwar Britain.