Mainstreaming co-operation : an alternative for the twenty-first century? / edited by Anthony Webster, Linda Shaw, Rachael Vorberg-Rugh.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Vorberg-Rugh, Rachael, editor.

Shaw, Linda (Linda M.), editor.

Webster, Anthony, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Cooperative societies.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xii, 314 pages) : illustrations (black and white), charts; digital file(s).

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Manchester, UK : Manchester University Press, 2016.

System Details:

data file

Summary:

This collection considers the transformation that has taken place over the last thirty years in the global position of co-operative and mutual business models, from the prevailing view of the investor-led model in the 1980s to the aftermath of the 2008 financial crisis and revival of the co-operative movement.

Contents:

1. Introduction / Anthony Webster, Linda Shaw and Rachael Vorberg-Rugh

2. Mainstreaming co-operatives after the global financial crisis / Claudia Sanchez Bajo and Bruno Roelants

3. Our agencies : persuasion and the value of a concept to mainstreaming co-operation / Philip Grant

4. G. J. Holyoake (1807-1906) : a resource for a journey of hope? / Stephen Yeo

5. History, citizenship and co-operative education, c. 1895-1930 / Keith Vernon

6. 'The unit of the co-operative movement ... is a woman' : gender and the development of the co-operative business model in Britain / Rachael Vorberg-Rugh

7. A continuing challenge : women and leadership in co-operatives / Barbara Rawlings and Linda Shaw

8. The wasted years? : the Co-operative Party during the 1930s / Angela Whitecross

9. New models of ownership and governance / Cliff Mills and Ruth Yeoman

10. Co-operatives in health care : global prospects for the development of co-operatives as instruments of consumer-centred health care / Vern Hughes

11. Rising numbers of architectural co-operatives in an uncertain construction economy / Stephen McCusker

12. Co-operatives and climate protection : housing co-operatives in Germany / Carolin Schröder and Heike Walk

13. The co-operative identity : good for poverty reduction? / Rowshan Hannan

14. What do we really know about workers' co-operatives? / Virginie P̌rotin

15.The impact of the co-operative ethos on the creation of shared value : a case study of Lincolnshire Co-operative Society / Phil Considine and Martin Hingley

16. Learning to swim against the tide : crises and co-operative credibility

some international and historical examples / Anthony Webster, Linda Shaw, Rachael Vorberg-Rugh, John F. Wilson and Ian Snaith.

Notes:

Includes index.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-5261-2073-9

1-5261-0099-1

OCLC:

978551868