Author: A. LégerPublisher:
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Category : Cooperative societies
Languages : en
Pages : 346
Book Description
Les Cooperatives Et L'organisation Socialiste en Belgique
Author: A. LégerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Cooperative societies
Languages : en
Pages : 346
Book Description
Cooperatives in an Uncertain World
Author: Michael AmbühlPublisher: Springer Nature
ISBN: 3031562003
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 382
Book Description
Historical Dictionary of the Cooperative Movement
Author: Jack ShafferPublisher: Scarecrow Press
ISBN: 0810866315
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 646
Book Description
Cooperatives are found everywhere, doing all kinds of things. They are critical elements in the economies of a large number of countries around the world, large and small. Their affairs are carried out by elected leadership that runs the gamut from the illiterate to the scholarly. Their membership is made up of people of all socio-economic backgrounds. It is those members who, through their support and their needs, determine the successes and failures of cooperatives. But cooperatives as a popular movement will also be judged in other ways. A judgment will be made on the totality of their impact: local, national, and international. People will ask about how they helped ameliorate the economic and social problems of the dispossessed. But they will also inquire about their influence on economic systems, whether these were made more humane, egalitarian, and inclusive in their benefits because of cooperative principles and practices. Their impact on the international order will be judged collectively by how they contributed more than resolutions to peace, to justice, and to human inclusiveness. This volume provides snapshot views of the cooperative movement in all its diversity. The only single source one can consult to find so much information on the different kinds of cooperatives, significant figures, including philosophers, pioneers, officials, and leaders, and the situation in a large number of countries. With a list of acronyms, an extensive chronology, appendixes, and a comprehensive bibliography.
U.S.A.
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Author: Publisher: Food & Agriculture Org.
ISBN: 9251386838
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 208
Book Description
The Consumer Co-operative Sector
Author: John F. WilsonPublisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1003806759
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 246
Book Description
Globally, consumer co-operation has experienced a difficult period since the 1970s. Large scale failures in France, Germany and Austria were accompanied by loss of market share in the UK (including the failure of the Scottish Co-operative Wholesale Society and its takeover by its English counterpart). Even in the Nordic countries, where consumer co-operation has always been more robust, new challenges from the non-co-operative sector had to be confronted. How did co-operative organizations in different countries cope with these challenges? What were the processes of strategic renewal that they undertook? How successful were they? These are the key questions that the collection will address, culminating in an analysis by the editors of the effectiveness of strategic renewal in the co-operative sector. This book is a study of strategic renewal in the consumer co-operative sector, using eleven international case-studies to demonstrate how the concept has been applied over the last fifty years.
Report of the Proceedings of the ... International Co-operative Congress ...
Author: 
Author: Publisher: Odile Jacob
ISBN: 2738178367
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 433
Book Description
The 'Social' as Metaphor and the Case of Cooperatives
Author: Marie L. Pellegrin-ResciaPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351145223
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 269
Book Description
Drawing on Polanyi, Austin and Lacan, Marie Pellegrin-Rescia and Yair Levi offer a powerful critique of the language and categories of thought that dominate the contemporary intellectual and political landscape. The general tendency to dichotomize concepts such as left and right, social and economic, globalization and anti-globalization, is, they argue, a consequence of our subservience to the primacy of the rational economic agent. The authors offer a selection of case-studies of co-operatives, which are shown to be paradoxical entities in a worldview in which the social exists only as a metaphor for a space concerned with the damage caused by the economic. Through an analysis of experiences in achieving civil accord in South Africa and in establishing a new town in the mountains of Sicily, they offer a new political orientation in a world of uncertainty. In doing so they attempt an answer to one of the most intriguing questions of our time: should we accept as a fait-accompli the way our society is conceived and shaped, or can we have a say in the matter and assume the ethical responsibility involved?
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