A Global History of Consumer Co-operation since 1850: Movements and Businesses

Copyright

Dedication

Contents

Acknowledgements

List of Illustrations

List of Abbreviations

Notes on Contributors

Introduction

1 A Global History of Consumer Co-operation since 1850: Introduction

2 Co-operative History: Movements and Businesses

SECTION 1: Origins and Models

Origins and Models: Introduction to Section 1

3 Rochdale and Beyond: Consumer Co-operation in Britain before 1945

4 The Belgian Co-operative Model: Elements of Success and Failure

5 History of Consumer Co-operatives in France: From the Conquest of Consumption by the Masses to the Challenge of Mass Consumption

6 Consumer Co-operation in the Nordic Countries, c. 1860–1939

7 Canadian and US Catholic Promotion of Co-operatives in Central America and the Caribbean and Their Political Implications

8 African American Consumer Co-operation: History and Global Connections

9 A Co-operative Take on Free Trade: International Ambitions and Regional Initiatives in International Co-operative Trade

SECTION 2: Challenges to Democracy – State Intervention

Challenges to Democracy – State Intervention: Introduction to Section 2

10 German Co-operatives: Rise and Fall 1850–1970

11 The Rise and Fall of Austria’s Consumer Co-operatives

12 Consumer Co-operatives in Portugal: Debates and Experiences from the Nineteenth to the Twentieth Century

13 Consumer Co-operatives in Spain, 1860–2010

14 The Experience of the Consumer Co-operative Movement in Korea: Its Break off and Rebirth, 1919–2010

15 Consumer Co-operatives in the People’s Republic of China: A Development Path Shaped by Its Economic and Political History

SECTION 3: Challenges to Business

Challenges to Business: Introduction to Section 3

16 Managing Consumer Co-operatives: A Historical Perspective

17 Patterns, Limitations and Associations: The Consumer Co-operative Movement in Canada, 1828 to the Present

18 Rochdale Consumer Co-operatives in Australia and New Zealand

19 Consumer Co-operation in a Changing Economy: The Case of Argentina

20 Fighting Monopoly and Enhancing Democracy: A Historical Overview of US Consumer Co-operatives

21 Affluence and Decline: Consumer Co-operatives in Postwar Britain

SECTION 4: Consolidation

Consolidation: Introduction to Section 4

22 Going Global. The Rise of the CWS as an International Commercial and Political Actor, 1863–1950: Scoping an Agenda for Further Research

23 Consumer Co-operation in Italy: A Network of Co-operatives with a Multi-class Constituency

24 Consumer Societies in Switzerland: From Local Self-help Organizations to a Single National Co-operative

25 From Commercial Trickery to Social Responsibility: Marketing in the Swedish Co-operative Movement in the Early Twentieth Century

26 Building Consumer Democracy: The Trajectory of Consumer Co-operation in Japan

27 Against the Tide: Understanding the Commercial Success of Nordic Consumer Co-operatives, 1950–2010

Conclusion

28 Conclusion: Consumer Co-operatives Past, Present and Future

Bibliography

Index