The proclamation by the United Nations that 2012 would be the International Year of Co-operatives represents a milestone in the history of the international co-operative movement. It reflects the growth and renewal of co-operatives globally during the past decade and a half, whether the focus is on financial co-operatives in Britain or producer co-operatives across Africa. Co-operatives have proved resilient in the wake of the global financial crisis of 2008-9 compared to the investor led business and financial companies which have been found profoundly wanting, financially and morally. The contributions to The Hidden Alternative demonstrate that co-operation offers a real and much needed alternative for the organisation of human economic and social affairs, one that should establish its place at the forefront of public and academic discussion and policy making. The book includes chapters on education, fair trade, politics and governance, planning and sustainability and on how co-operatives have coped with the global economic crisis. -- .
The proclamation by the United Nations that 2012 would be the International Year of Co-operatives represents a milestone in the history of the international co-operative movement. It reflects the growth and renewal of co-operatives globally during the past decade and a half, whether the focus is on financial co-operatives in Britain or producer co-operatives across Africa. Co-operatives have proved resilient in the wake of the global financial crisis of 2008-9 compared to the investor led business and financial companies which have been found profoundly wanting, financially and morally. The contributions to The Hidden Alternative demonstrate that co-operation offers a real and much needed alternative for the organisation of human economic and social affairs, one that should establish its place at the forefront of public and academic discussion and policy making. The book includes chapters on education, fair trade, politics and governance, planning and sustainability and on how co-operatives have coped with the global economic crisis. -- .
1. Co-operativism meets city ethics: The 1997 Lanica take-over
bid for CWS.
2. Values and vocation: Educating the Co-operative workforce,
19181939.
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 mondragón.
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 chinas anti-Japanese resistance
Anthony Webster is Head of History at Liverpool John Moores
University
Alyson Brown is Reader in History at Edge Hill University.
David Stewart is Senior Editor in History at the University of
Central Lancashire
Linda Shaw is a Vice Principal at the Co-operative College
John K. Walton is Ikerbasque Research Professor in the Department
of Contemporary History at the University of the Basque Country,
Bilbao
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