The English Co-operative Wholesale Society (CWS), established in 1863, emerged in the nineteenth century as a key component of the British co-operative movement, selling to retail societies many of the commodities they sold on to their members and customers. But the CWS had to compete with...

Purpose This paper aims to provide an introduction to how worker co-operatives and other organisations based on principles of the participatory economy have been adopted in a range of international contexts as a vehicle for transforming places with a strong aspiration to address...

This book examines the role of mercantile networks in linking Asian economies to the global economy. It contains fourteen contributions on East, Southeast and South Asia covering the period from 1750 to the present

This volume offers an important vision of co-operation as an alternative to the neoliberal market, exploring the cooperative model's potential for driving environmental and socio-economic transformation in the post-COVID world.

This volume offers an important vision of co-operation as an alternative to the neoliberal market, exploring the cooperative model's potential for driving environmental and socio-economic transformation in the post-COVID world