Consumers Against Capitalism? Consumer Cooperation in Europe, North America, and Japan, 1840D1990

by Furlough, Ellen; Strikwerda, Carl; Alex, Peder; Christiansen, Niels Finn; Donahue, Kathleen; Fairbairn, Brett; Gurney, Peter; Hauch, Gabriella; Leikin, Steven; MacPherson, Ian

• ISBN13: 9780847686490
• ISBN10: 0847686493
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1999-02-18
• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

Summary

In this important collection of essays, historians from six different countries trace the history of the consumer cooperative movement in much of western Europe and North America from its inception to the present. The consumer cooperative, as the contributors show, bears directly on the role of socialist parties, the nascent feminist movement, and conceptions of the worker's role in a changing economy and society in the 19th and 20th centuries.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	p. ix
Economics, Consumer Culture, and Gender: An Introduction to the Politics of Consumer Cooperation	p. 1
"Alternative Visions" and Working-Class Culture: The Political Economy of Consumer Cooperation in Belgium, 1860-1980	p. 67
The Citizen Producer: The Rise and Fall of Working-Class Cooperatives in the United States	p. 93
From Cooperative Commonwealth to Cooperative Democracy: The American Cooperative Ideal, 1880-1940	p. 115
Labor's Great Arch: Cooperation and Cultural Revolution in Britain, 1795-1926	p. 135
French Consumer Cooperation, 1885-1930: From the "Third Pillar" of Socialism to "A Movement for All Consumers"	p. 173
From Self-Help to Konzern: Consumer Cooperatives in Austria, 1840-1990	p. 191
Between Farmers and Workers: Consumer Cooperation in Denmark, 1850-1940	p. 221
Swedish Consumer Cooperation as an Educational Endeavor	p. 241
The Rise and Fall of Consumer Cooperation in Germany	p. 267
The Consumer Co-op in Japan: Building Democratic Alternatives to State-Led Capitalism	p. 303
Of Spheres, Perspectives, Cultures, and Stages: The Consumer Co-operative Movement in English-Speaking Canada, 1830-1980	p. 331
Bibliography	p. 359
Index	p. 369
About the Contributors	p. 375
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