, emphasizing that there is an alternative to privately owned firms. While greed and mismanagement have caused world financial and …

historiographical agendas that have resulted in its relative invisibility in modern British history. This book, by demonstrating the …, seeks to remedy this. Taking stock, both of the Co-op in a broader context and of new approaches to the history of … students of the economic, cultural and political history of twentieth-century Britain. It will also be of interest to academics …

Introduction -- A global history of consumer co-operation since 1850 : introduction / Mary Hilson, Silke Neunsinger and … Greg Patmore -- Co-operative history : movements and businesses / Mary Hilson -- Origins and models -- Rochdale and beyond … / Geert Van Goethem -- History of consumer co-operatives in France : from the conquest of consumption by the masses to the …