| Description |
1 online resource (xxix, 847 pages.) |
| Series |
Studies in Global Social History ; volume 28 |
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Studies in global social history ; v. 28
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| Contents |
Introduction -- A global history of consumer co-operation since 1850 : introduction / Mary Hilson, Silke Neunsinger and Greg Patmore -- Co-operative history : movements and businesses / Mary Hilson -- Origins and models -- Rochdale and beyond : consumer co-operation in Britain before 1945 / Mary Hilson -- The Belgian co-operative model : elements of success and failure / Geert Van Goethem -- History of consumer co-operatives in France : from the conquest of consumption by the masses to the challenge of mass consumption / Simon Lambersens, Amelie Artis, Daniele Demoustier and Alain Melo -- Consumer co-operation in the Nordic countries, c. 1860-1939 / Mary Hilson -- Canadian and US Catholic promotion of co-operatives in Central America and the Caribbean and their political implications / Susan Fitzpatrick-Behrens and Catherine C LeGrand -- African American consumer co-operation : history and global connections / Jessica Gordon Nembhard -- A co-operative take on free trade: international ambitions and regional initiatives in international co-operative trade / Katarina Friberg -- Challenges to democracy -- state intervention -- German co-operatives : rise and fall 1850-1970 / Michael Prinz -- The rise and fall of Austria's consumer co-operatives / Johann Brazda, Florian Jagschitz, Siegfried Rom and Robert Schediwy -- Consumer co-operatives in Portugal : debates and experiences from the nineteenth to the twentieth century / Dulce Freire and Joana Dias Pereira -- Consumer co-operatives in spain 1860-2010 / Francisco J Medina-Albaladejo -- The experience of the consumer co-operative movement in Korea : its break off and rebirth / Kim Hyung-mi -- Consumer co-operatives in the People's Republic of china : a development path shaped by its economic and political history / Mary Ip and Kay-Wah Chan -- Challenges to business -- Managing consumer co-operatives : a historical perspective / Greg Patmore and Nikola Balnave -- Patterns, limitations and associations : the consumer co-operative movement in Canada, 1828 to the present / Ian MacPherson -- Rochdale consumer co-operatives in Australia and New Zealand / Nikola Balnave and Greg Patmore -- Consumer co-operation in a changing economy : the case of Argentina / Mirta Vuotto, Griselda Verbeke and Maria Eugenia Castelao Caruana -- Fighting monopoly and enhancing democracy : a historical overview of us consumer co-operatives / Greg Patmore -- Affluence and decline : consumer co-operatives in postwar Britain / Corrado Secchi -- Consolidation -- Going global. the rise of the CWS as an international commercial and political actor, 1863-1950 : scoping an agenda for further research / Anthony Webster, John F Wilson and Rachael Vorberg-Rugh -- Consumer co-operation in italy : a network of co-operatives with a multi-class constituency / Patrizia Battilani -- Consumer societies in Switzerland : from local self-help organizations to a single national co-operative / Bernard Degen -- From commercial trickery to social responsibility : marketing in the Swedish co-operative movement in the early twentieth century / Pernilla Jonsson -- Building consumer democracy : the trajectory of consumer co-operation in Japan / Akira Kurimoto -- Against the tide: understanding the commercial success of Nordic consumer co-operatives, 1950-2010 / Espen Ekberg -- Conclusion: consumer co-operatives past, present and future / Silke Neunsinger and Greg Patmore -- Bibliography -- Index |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Description based on print version record |
| Subject |
Consumer cooperatives -- History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Hilson, Mary, editor
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Neunsinger, Silke, editor
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Patmore, Greg, editor
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E.J. Brill (Firm)
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| ISBN |
9789004336551 (electronic bk.) |
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9004336559 (electronic bk.) |
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