{"product_id":"a-global-history-of-consumer-co-operation-since-1850-movements-and-businesses-9789004336544","title":"A Global History of Consumer Co-operation since 1850: Movements and Businesses","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWith 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Anyone working on the cooperative movement will have this book on their bookshelves. It very much assembles the state of the art in the history of consumer cooperation.\" - Stefan Berger, \"What is New in the History of Social Movements?\", in: Moving the Social, Volume 59 (2018), pp. 115-127 [DOI: 10.13154\/mts.59.2018.115-127]  \"By illuminating the divergent histories of consumer cooperative movements in industrialized countries in Europe, North America, and Asia, A Global History makes an important contribution to scholarship. [...] Hilson and her collaborators will remain widely read for decades.\" - Carl J. Strikwerda, in: International Review of Social History 63:1 (2018), pp. 127–142 [DOI:10.1017\/S0020859017000670]  \"The book is not uncritical of divisions between co-ops over markets, or of the tensions between cheap goods, colonial production, and ethical matters, or of failures such as the Berkeley co-op. Like its subject, this book is unwieldy, yet worldly; its ambitions are greater than the sum of its parts, but those parts are very rewarding in their detail—and those ambitions are inestimably worthy, enduring, and global.\" - Lawrence Black, in: Economic History Review 71:2 (2018), pp. 692-694\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgements 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","brand":"Brill","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53210697466199,"sku":"9789004336544","price":200.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/a-global-history-of-consumer-co-operation-since-1850-movements-and-businesses-9789004336544","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}