Co-operation and globalisation : the British co-operative wholesales, the co-operative group and the world since 1863 / Anthony Webster.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Webster, Anthony, author.

Series:

Routledge international studies in business history

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Co-operative Wholesale Society (Great Britain).

Cooperation--Great Britain--History.

Cooperation.

Retail trade--Great Britain--History.

Retail trade.

Wholesale trade--Great Britain--History.

Wholesale trade.

History.

Great Britain.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

195 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Routledge, 2019.

Contents:

Mr Bates goes to Washington : industrialisation, consumerism, overseas trade and British co-operation 1800-1890 : an overview

Butter, dried fruit and the big apple : the rise of the CWS/SCWS as a global business 1863-1890

Indian cuppas, West African soap and Irish failures : the maturing of a global supply network : the CWS's international trade, British co-operation and the British state 1890-1918

Dealing with dictators and developing the empire : the zenith of British co-operation and the world 1918-1945?

Retreat and deconstruction : the decline of the global British co-operative wholesale networks 1945-1980 and West Africa and South Asia : two case studies of the wholesales overseas

Rebuilding global networks and moral regeneration : evaluating the emergence of the co-operative group 1980-2018 within the global history of British wholesale co-operation

Bibliography

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

ebook version :

ISBN:

9781138501355

1138501352

OCLC:

1079002531