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Book SynopsisThe Hidden Alternative will be of interest to students and academics studying economic, business studies, history or politics, and also to policy-makers who have witnessed the inadequacies of investor-led business models during the global recession. -- .
Table of Contents1. Co-operativism meets city ethics: The 1997 Lanica take-over bid for CWS.
2. Values and vocation: Educating the Co-operative workforce, 1918–1939.
3. International perspectives on Co-operative education.
4. Co-operative education in Britain during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries: Context, identity and learning.
5. Beyond a fair price.
6. Negotiating consumer and producer interests – a challenge for the co-op and fair trade.
7. ‘A party within a party’? The Co-operative Party-Labour Party alliance and the formation of the Social Democratic Party, 1974-81.
8. The creation of new entities: Stakeholders and hareholders in 19th century Italian co-operatives.
9. Co-operatives and nation-building in post apartheid South Africa: Contradictions and challenges.
10. Community, individuality and co-operation: The centrality of values.
11. An alternative co-operative tradition: The Basque co-operatives of mondragón.
12. ‘A co-operative of intellectuals’: the encounter between co-operative values and urban planning. An Italian case study. 13.Government to governance: the challenge of co-operative revival in India.
14. Minding the gaap: Co-operative responses to the global convergence of accounting standards and practice.
15. Resting on laurels? Examining the resilience of co-operative values in times of calm and crisis.
16. Shared visions of co-operation at a time of crisis: The gung ho story in china’s anti-Japanese resistance
