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With contributions from over 30 scholars, A Global History of Consumer Co-operation surveys the origins and development of the consumer co-operative movement from the mid-nineteenth century until the present day. The contributions, covering the history of co-operation in different national contexts in Europe, the Americas, Asia and Australasia, illustrate the wide variety of forms that consumer co-operatives have taken; the different political, economic and social contexts in which they have operated; the ideological influences on their development; and the reasons for their expansion and decline at different times. The book also explores the connections between co-operatives in different parts of the world, challenging assumptions that the story of global co-operation can be traced exclusively to the 1844 Rochdale Co-operative Society.
Contributors are: Amélie Artis, Nikola Balnave, Patrizia Battilani, Johann Brazda, Susan Fitzpatrick-Behrens, María Eugenia Castelao Caruana, Kay-Wah Chan, Bernard Degen, Danièle Demoustier, Espen Ekberg, Dulce Freire, Katarina Friberg, Mary Hilson, Mary Ip, Florian Jagschitz, Pernilla Jonsson, Kim Hyung-mi, Akira Kurimoto, Simon Lambersens, Catherine C LeGrand, Ian MacPherson, Francisco José Medina-Albaladejo, Alain Mélo, Jessica Gordon Nembhard, Silke Neunsinger, Greg Patmore, Joana Dias Pereira, Michael Prinz, Siegfried Rom, Robert Schediwy, Corrado Secchi, Geert Van Goethem, Griselda Verbeke, Rachael Vorberg-Rugh, Mirta Vuotto, Anthony Webster and John Wilson.
Contents
Acknowledgements
List of Illustrations
List of Abbreviations
Notes on Contributors
Introduction
1 A Global History of Consumer Co-operation since 1850: Introduction
Mary Hilson, Silke Neunsinger and Greg Patmore
2 Co-operative History: Movements and Businesses
Mary Hilson
SECTION 1: Origins and Models
Introduction to Section 1
Mary Hilson
3 Rochdale and Beyond: Consumer Co-operation in Britain before 1945
Mary Hilson
4 The Belgian Co-operative Model: Elements of Success and Failure
Geert Van Goethem
5 History of Consumer Co-operatives in France: From the Conquest of Consumption by the Masses to the Challenge of Mass Consumption
Simon Lambersens, Amélie Artis, Danièle Demoustier and Alain Mélo
6 Consumer Co-operation in the Nordic Countries, c. 1860-1939
Mary Hilson
7 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
8 African American Consumer Co-operation: History and Global Connections
Jessica Gordon Nembhard
9 A Co-operative Take on Free Trade: International Ambitions and Regional Initiatives in International Co-operative Trade
Katarina Friberg
SECTION 2: Challenges to Democracy - State Intervention
Introduction to Section 2
Silke Neunsinger
10 German Co-operatives: Rise and Fall 1850-1970
Michael Prinz
11 The Rise and Fall of Austria's Consumer Co-operatives
Johann Brazda, Florian Jagschitz, Siegfried Rom and Robert Schediwy
12 Consumer Co-operatives in Portugal: Debates and Experiences from the Nineteenth to the Twentieth Century
Dulce Freire and Joana Dias Pereira
13 Consumer Co-operatives in Spain 1860-2010
Francisco J Medina-Albaladejo
14 The Experience of the Consumer Co-operative Movement in Korea: Its Break off and Rebirth
Kim Hyung-mi
15 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
SECTION 3: Challenges to Business
Introduction to Section 3
Greg Patmore
16 Managing Consumer Co-operatives: A Historical Perspective
Greg Patmore and Nikola Balnave
17 Patterns, Limitations and Associations: The Consumer Co-operative Movement in Canada, 1828 to the Present
Ian MacPherson
18 Rochdale Consumer Co-operatives in Australia and New Zealand
Nikola Balnave and Greg Patmore
19 Consumer Co-operation in a Changing Economy: The Case of Argentina
Mirta Vuotto, Griselda Verbeke and María Eugenia Castelao Caruana
20 Fighting Monopoly and Enhancing Democracy: A Historical Overview of us Consumer Co-operatives
Greg Patmore
21 Affluence and Decline: Consumer Co-operatives in Postwar Britain
Corrado Secchi
SECTION 4
Consolidation
Introduction to Section 4
Mary Hilson
22 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
23 Consumer Co-operation in Italy: A Network of Co-operatives with a Multi-class Constituency
Patrizia Battilani
24 Consumer Societies in Switzerland: From Local Self-help Organizations to a Single National Co-operative
Bernard Degen
25 From Commercial Trickery to Social Responsibility: Marketing in the Swedish Co-operative Movement in the Early Twentieth Century
Pernilla Jonsson
26 Building Consumer Democracy: The Trajectory of Consumer Co-operation in Japan
Akira Kurimoto
27 Against the Tide: Understanding the Commercial Success of Nordic Consumer Co-operatives, 1950-2010
Espen Ekberg
Conclusion
28 Conclusion: Consumer Co-operatives Past, Present and Future
Silke Neunsinger and Greg Patmore
Bibliography
Index
