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Book SynopsisThis book assembles an expert team of leading authorities and up-and coming scholars to re-assess the status of the Co-op in modern British history and demonstrate the Co-op's continuing relevance to contemporary debates about consumerism and . -- .
Table of ContentsList of contributors
Acknowledgements
List of figures
List of tables
1. Taking stock: an introduction – Lawrence Black, Nicole Robertson
Part I. Debating and constructing post-war decline
2. The post-war decline of the British retail Co-operative movement: nature, causes and consequences – John Walton
3. ‘Trying to sell a parcel of politics with a parcel of groceries’: the Co-operative Independent Commission (CIC) and consumerism in post-war Britain – Lawrence Black
4. Consumer co-operation and the transformation of modern food retailing: the British and Norwegian consumer co-operative movement in comparison, 1950–2002 – Espen Ekberg
Part II. Ideologies and identities
5. The consumer co-operative movement in cross-national perspective: Britain and Sweden, c.1860–1939 – Mary Hilson
6. The identity of co-operative and mutual enterprises and the political sociology of Emile Durkheim: an introduction – Stephen Yeo
7. Irish railwaymen and the retail Co-operative movement, 1917–23 – Conor McCabe
8. Employers and workers: conflicting identities over women’s wages in the co-operative movement, 1906–18 – Rachael Vorberg-Rugh
9. ‘Mothers for Peace’, co-operation, feminism and peace: the Women’s Co-operative Guild and the anti-war movement between the wars – Andrew Flinn
Part III. Consumerism and material culture
10. The commemorative urge: the Co-operative movement’s collective memory – Chris Wrigley
11. Promoting product quality: the Co-op and the Council of Industrial Design – Lesley Whitworth
12. Innovation, modernisation, consumerism: the Co-operative movement and the making of British advertising and marketing culture, 1890s – 1960s – Stefan Schwarzkopf
13. ‘Co-operation: the hope of the consumer’? The co-operative movement
and consumer protection – Nicole Robertson
14. ‘Cost of cup of tea’: Fair Trade and the British Co-operative movement, c.1960–2000 – Matthew Anderson
