Case Studies of Consumers’ Cooperatives : Successful Cooperatives Started by Finnish Groups in the United States Studied in Relation to Their Social and Economic Environment
H. Haines Turner
Frontmatter -- Preface -- Contents -- 1. Introduction. A Note on the Order of Reading -- Part I. Maynard, Massachusetts -- 2. Cooperative Accomplishments in Maynard -- 3. A Description of the Community -- 4. The Development of Cooperatives -- 5. Social Aspects of the United Cooperative Society’s Growth -- 6. An Economic Appraisal of the United Cooperative Society -- 7. Direction and Personnel -- 8. Competition with Private Business for Patronage -- 9. The Case of Maynard, Massachusetts; Conclusions -- Part II. Cooperatives in the Lake Superior Region and Their Cooperative Wholesale -- 10. A Survey of Consumers’ Cooperatives in the Lake Superior Region -- 11. The Environment in Which They Developed -- 12. The Development of Consumers’ Cooperatives – Why, When, Where -- 13. The Cooperative Wholesale -- 14. The Local Cooperative Societies During the 1920’S -- 15. Social and Political Barriers to Cooperation -- 16. The Cooperatives as an Independent Movement – The Depression to Date -- 17. An Economic Appraisal of the Central Cooperative Wholesale Group -- 18. The Direction and Personnel of the Cooperatives -- 19. Factors Affecting Cooperative Growth -- Part III. Conclusions -- 20. Cooperative Contributions and Opportunities in the United States -- Appendices -- Index