The Hidden Alternative Co-operative Values, Past, Present and Future

by Webster, Anthony; Shaw, Linda; Brown, Alyson; Walton, John K.; Stewart, David

• ISBN13: 9780719086564
• ISBN10: 0719086566
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2011-12-01
• Publisher: Manchester University Press

Table of Contents

1. 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 mondrag.

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