China Builds for Democracy; A story of cooperative industry, by Nym Wales (Hardcover - Feb 8, 2008). Native American Books
Distributor (February 8, 2008). Information
Collecting Garbage:
Dirty Work, Clean Jobs, Proud People by Stewart Perry and Raymond Russell (Paperback - Feb 28, 1998). Transaction Publishers
(February 28, 1998). Information
Consumer's Cooperative
Societies by Charles Gide (Unknown Binding
- 1971). Haskell House Publishers (1971).
A pioneer work on conusmer cooperation by the
French economist and historian. Treats aspects of the movement in various parts of the
world and discusses the various cooperatives, their raisons d'tre and the different forms
they have taken. Extremely valuable in light of the increased interest in the consumer
movement today. Information
Cooperatives In
Agriculture by David W. Cobia (Hardcover - Nov 25, 1988). Prentice Hall
(November 25, 1988).
Comprehensive, up to date discussion of ag
cooperatives written by leading authorities and sponsored by AIC. Less expensive than the
competition. Comprehensive, up to date discussion of ag cooperatives written by leading
authorities and sponsored by AIC. Information
Creating
Community in the City: Cooperatives and Community Gardens in Washington, D.C. (Contemporary
Urban Studies) by
Ruth H. Landman (Hardcover - Jun 30, 1993).
Bergin & Garvey (June 30, 1993).
Landman studies four communally-oriented settings in
Washington's urban environment. Through ethnographic field work she learned that
cooperation, sociability, and self management overcame the common urban challenges posed
by isolation and largely impersonal, single purpose contact with others. The settings were
a cooperative food store, a cooperative bakery, community gardens, and a cooperatively
owned low-cost housing project. Landman shows how the participants in these economically
related activities are socially bound together in a web of relations considered unusual in
large American cities, and how these exceptionally connected urban lives prove very
satisfactory. Information
Fraternity among the
French Peasantry: Sociability and Voluntary Associations in the Loire Valley, 1815-1914 (Cambridge Studies in
Historical Geography) by Alan R. H.
Baker (Hardcover - Mar 28, 1999). Cambridge
University Press (March 28, 1999).
Using meticulous archival research, Alan Baker
challenges the orthodox portrayal of nineteenth-century French peasants as individualists
and examines the extent to which they both continued with traditional forms of community
action and developed new forms of collective action. More specifically, he examines the
development and spread of voluntary associations in Loir-et-Cher, on the southwestern
margin of the Paris Basin. He focuses on associations aimed at reducing risk and
uncertainty (mainly livestock insurance associations, mutual aid societies, and volunteer
fire brigades), and on associations intended to provide agricultural protection. Information
Hands Around the Globe: A History of the
International Credit Union Movement and the Role and Development of World Council of
Credit Unions, Inc. by Ian MacPherson (Paperback - Jan 2000). Horsdal &
Schubart Publishers, (January 2000). Information
Public, Trade Union and Cooperative Enterprise in Germany:
The Commonweal Idea by Walter Hasselbach (Hardcover -
April 22, 1976). Frank Cass & Co.; 1 edition (April 22, 1976). Information
The Lie of the Land:
Migrant Workers and the California Landscape by Don Mitchell (Hardcover - Mar 1996). University of Minnesota
Press (March 1996). Information
The New Mutualism in Public Policy (Routledge
Studies in Business Organization and Networks, 15,) by J. Birchall (Library Binding - Jul
6, 2001. Routledge; 1 edition (July 6, 2001).
Mutuality has become a topic of debate
recently for a whole range of academics and social commentators. The 'demutualisation' of
banks and building societies has been partnered by the idea of a 'new mutualism' , forming
a set of social values and beliefs, and this collection looks at the manifestations of
these trends and the implications for the future. Information
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