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1 online resource |
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Routledge Library Editions : The history of social welfare ; volume 9 |
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Routledge Library Editions. History of social welfare ; v. 9
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| Contents |
Ch. 1. The first efforts, and the kind of people who made them -- ch. 2. Appointment of a deputation to the masters : great debate in the flannel weavers' parliament -- ch. 3. The doffers appear at the opening day : moral buying as well as moral selling -- ch. 4. The society tried by two well-known difficulties : prejudice and sectarianism -- ch. 5. Enemies within and enemies without, and how they all were conquered -- ch. 6. The great flour mill panic -- ch. 7. Successive steps of success : the Rochdale store on a Saturday night -- ch. 8. Anecdotes of the members : the working class stand by the store and they "know the reason why" -- ch. 9. Rules and aims of the society -- ch. 10. The old co-operators : why they failed. The New co-operators : why they succeed -- ch. 11. An illustrative chapter -- ch. 12. An old pioneer's account of the origin of the store -- ch. 13. The weavers' dream -- ch. 14. The famous twenty-eight -- ch. 15. Legal impediments to economy -- ch. 16. Querulous outsiders -- ch. 17. Four dangerous years -- ch. 18. Halting on the way -- ch. 19. Story of the corn mill -- ch. 20. Origin of the "wholesale" -- ch. 21. Co-operative administration -- ch. 22. The branch store agitation -- ch. 23. Other characteristics of the Rochdale pioneers -- ch. 24. Contests for principle -- ch. 25. Dead pioneers -- ch. 26. The Rochdale Congress of 1892 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Online resource, title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed October 24, 2016) |
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Cooperation -- Great Britain
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Rochdale system.
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HISTORY -- Europe -- Great Britain -- Victorian Era (1837-1901)
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Cooperation
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Rochdale system
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Great Britain
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
1315468840 |
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9781315468846 |
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9781315468853 |
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1315468859 |
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