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

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Webster, Anthony, editor.

Shaw, Linda (Linda M.), editor.

Vorberg-Rugh, Rachael, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Cooperative societies.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xii, 314 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2016.

Summary:

After decades of flying beneath the radar, co-operation as a principle of business and socio-economic organisation is moving from the margins of economic, social and political thought into the mainstream. In both the developed and developing worlds, co-operative models are increasingly viewed as central to tackling a diverse array of issues, including global food security, climate change, sustainable economic development, public service provision, and gender inequality. This collection, drawing together research from an interdisciplinary group of scholars and co-operative practitioners, considers the different spheres in which co-operatives are becoming more prominent. Drawing examples from different national and international contexts, the book offers major insights into how co-operation will come to occupy a more central role in social and economic life in the twenty-first century.

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:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 10 Jul 2026).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-5261-2073-9

1-5261-0099-1

OCLC:

978551868