Mainstreaming co-operation (eBook, ePUB)

An alternative for the twenty-first century?
Redaktion: Webster, Anthony; Vorberg-Rugh, Rachael; Shaw, Linda

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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 world, 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. Mainstreaming co-operation will be of interest to students and academics studying economics, business studies, history, politics and international development, but also to policy makers interested in co-operatives and mutuals as a viable alternative to conventional models of social and economic development.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Pittsburgh Press
• Seitenzahl: 312
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. September 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781526101006
• Artikelnr.: 48026083

Autorenporträt

Anthony Webster is Professor in History at Northumbria University Linda Shaw was Vice-Principal at the Co-operative College and is Senior Visiting Research Fellow at the Open University Rachael Vorberg-Rugh is an independent scholar

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
Anthony Webster, Linda Shaw and Rachael Vorberg
Rugh 1. Mainstreaming co
operatives after the global financial crisis
Claudia Sanchez Bajo and Bruno Roelants 2. Our agencies: persuasion and the value of a concept to mainstreaming co
operation
Philip Grant 3. G. J. Holyoake (1807
1906): a resource for a journey of hope?
Stephen Yeo 4. History, citizenship and co
operative education, c. 1895
1930
Keith Vernon 5. '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 6. A continuing challenge: women and leadership in co
operatives
Barbara Rawlings and Linda Shaw 7. The wasted years? The Co
operative Party during the 1930s
Angela Whitecross 8. New models of ownership and governance
Cliff Mills and Ruth Yeoman 9. Co
operatives in health care: global prospects for the development of co
operatives as instruments of consumer
centred health care
Vern Hughes 10. Rising numbers of architectural co
operatives in an uncertain construction economy
Stephen McCusker 11. Co
operatives and climate protection: housing co
operatives in Germany
Carolin Schröder and Heike Walk 12. The co
operative identity: good for poverty reduction?
Rowshan Hannan 13. What do we really know about workers' co
operatives?
Virginie Pérotin 14.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 15. 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 Index