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Author: Nicholas Deakin (Editor)
Category: Co-operation / Member Participation
Pages: 33

Description:
Proceedings of a seminar series organised at the London School of Economics Centre for Civil Society. The starting point for discussions was the perception that membership, as a concept, has become curiously undervalued in debates about the future of civil society in the UK. The contributors show membership as a concept, the membership implications of the Co-operative commission and the revitalisation of membership to address the issues of the new century.

Author: Edited by Richard Bickle and Molly Scott Cato
Category: New / History / Co-operation
Pages: 206

Description:
Robert Owen was one of the most significant thinkers and social innovators of the nineteenth century. He is widely recognised as the ‘Father of Co-operation’ and an exemplary industrialist and educational reformer – his work on time-based currencies, trades unionism and community living are perhaps less well known. This book explores the connections between Owen’s work and the present day through a series of papers.

Author: Melanie Howarth
Category: Co-operation / International
Pages: 56

Description:
The Argentinian experience detailed in this paper takes place 150 years after the industrial revolution in the UK. Yet in many ways, it reflects a common response by human society to turmoil and disintegration brought about by rapid economic change, resulting in worker’s livelihoods and those of their families being placed in jeopardy. The worker’s response was instinctive – to work together to safeguard jobs, and the skills and competencies on which their livelihoods and those depended.

Author: Edited by Linda Shaw
Category: Co-operation / International
Pages: 150

Description:
Both the co-operative and Fair Trade movements have the potential to promote a more equitable and balanced economy and society, not just within Europe but with their trading partners in the developing world. The vital contribution of the co-operative sector in Europe to the development of European markets for Fair Trade products is the focus of this publication. Four detailed cases studies explore the situation in Italy, Sweden, Belgium and the UK

Author: Katarina Friberg
Category: Co-operation / History / Member Participation
Pages: 508

Description:
A comparative study of the Newcastle upon Tyne Co-operative Society in the UK and Konsumentforeningen Solidar in Malmo, Sweden. This volume follows the development of the two societies through their minutes and members’ meetings, showing the interaction with their environments, organisational structure and decision-making.

Author: Stephen Yeo
Category: Co-operation
Pages: 50

Description:
This report uses a historical focus to explore the potential of co-operative and mutual forms of organisation. It aims to point towards ways of making the historical inheritance of co-operative and mutual enterprises in Britain more widely understood, enabling features of the past to be realised as a resource for the present.

Author: Illustrations by Bill Tidy
Category: Co-operation
Pages: 136

Description:
This satirical series of letters to Babs, Betty Robinson’s friend, describes the progress she makes through the Co-operative Movement’s corridors of power. She crosses swords with Old Joking, the tyrannical boss of the Downmarket Co-op, wheels and deals a merger with Upmarket, and rescues her Society from disaster in the hands of the Reform Group, ending triumphantly as President of the Upmarket Society.

Author: N/A
Category: Co-operation
Pages: 96

Description:
Throughout 1994 people were writing down their thoughts and experiences of co-operation: this book is the result. It is all here, from distant memories to co-operative achievements, hopes and futures. A collection of prose and poetry published to celebrate the Movement’s 150th anniversary.

Author: United Kingdom Co-operative Council
Category: Co-operation
Pages: 120

Description:
The most comprehensive work of its kind to be published for many years, this book takes a fresh look at co-operation, both nationally and internationally, with facts and figures. Essential reading for anyone seeking better alternatives to conventional, investor-driven business structures or who would like more control over the economic aspects of their lives.