A Global History of Consumer Co-Operation Since 1850

Movements and Businesses
Erscheinungsjahr 2017
ISBN: 978-90-04-33654-4
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 28, 848 Seiten, Format (B × H): 159 mm x 241 mm, Gewicht: 1373 g

Reihe: Studies in Global Social History

With contributions from over 30 scholars, A Global History of Consumer Co-operation surveys the origins and development of the consumer co-operative movement from the mid-nineteenth century until the present day. The contributions, covering the history of co-operation in different national contexts in Europe, the Americas, Asia and Australasia, illustrate the wide variety of forms that consumer co-operatives have taken; the different political, economic and social contexts in which they have operated; the ideological influences on their development; and the reasons for their expansion and decline at different times. The book also explores the connections between co-operatives in different parts of the world, challenging assumptions that the story of global co-operation can be traced exclusively to the 1844 Rochdale Co-operative Society.

Contributors are: Amélie Artis, Nikola Balnave, Patrizia Battilani, Johann Brazda, Susan Fitzpatrick-Behrens, María Eugenia Castelao Caruana, Kay-Wah Chan, Bernard Degen, Danièle Demoustier, Espen Ekberg, Dulce Freire, Katarina Friberg, Mary Hilson, Mary Ip, Florian Jagschitz, Pernilla Jonsson, Kim Hyung-mi, Akira Kurimoto, Simon Lambersens, Catherine C LeGrand, Ian MacPherson, Francisco José Medina-Albaladejo, Alain Mélo, Jessica Gordon Nembhard, Silke Neunsinger, Greg Patmore, Joana Dias Pereira, Michael Prinz, Siegfried Rom, Robert Schediwy, Corrado Secchi, Geert Van Goethem, Griselda Verbeke, Rachael Vorberg-Rugh, Mirta Vuotto, Anthony Webster and John Wilson.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Weitere Mitwirkende

Hilson, Mary

Neunsinger, Silke

Patmore, Greg

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Globalisierung, Transformationsprozesse
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Freizeitsoziologie, Konsumsoziologie, Alltagssoziologie, Populärkultur
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Wirtschaftswissenschaften Wirtschaftsgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Mentalitäts- und Sozialgeschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Wirtschaftssoziologie, Arbeitssoziologie, Organisationssoziologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Weltgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Wirtschaftsgeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgements
List of Illustrations
List of Abbreviations
Notes on Contributors

Introduction
1 A Global History of Consumer Co-operation since 1850: Introduction
Mary Hilson, Silke Neunsinger and Greg Patmore
2 Co-operative History: Movements and Businesses
Mary Hilson

SECTION 1: Origins and Models
Introduction to Section 1
Mary Hilson
3 Rochdale and Beyond: Consumer Co-operation in Britain before 1945
Mary Hilson
4 The Belgian Co-operative Model: Elements of Success and Failure
Geert Van Goethem
5 History of Consumer Co-operatives in France: From the Conquest of Consumption by the Masses to the Challenge of Mass Consumption
Simon Lambersens, Amélie Artis, Danièle Demoustier and Alain Mélo
6 Consumer Co-operation in the Nordic Countries, c. 1860–1939
Mary Hilson
7 Canadian and us Catholic Promotion of Co-operatives in Central America and the Caribbean and Their Political Implications
Susan Fitzpatrick-Behrens and Catherine C LeGrand
8 African American Consumer Co-operation: History and Global Connections
Jessica Gordon Nembhard
9 A Co-operative Take on Free Trade: International Ambitions and Regional Initiatives in International Co-operative Trade
Katarina Friberg

SECTION 2: Challenges to Democracy – State Intervention
Introduction to Section 2
Silke Neunsinger
10 German Co-operatives: Rise and Fall 1850–1970
Michael Prinz
11 The Rise and Fall of Austria’s Consumer Co-operatives
Johann Brazda, Florian Jagschitz, Siegfried Rom and Robert Schediwy
12 Consumer Co-operatives in Portugal: Debates and Experiences from the Nineteenth to the Twentieth Century
Dulce Freire and Joana Dias Pereira
13 Consumer Co-operatives in Spain 1860–2010
Francisco J Medina-Albaladejo
14 The Experience of the Consumer Co-operative Movement in Korea: Its Break off and Rebirth
Kim Hyung-mi
15 Consumer Co-operatives in the People’s Republic of China – A Development Path Shaped by Its Economic and Political History
Mary Ip and Kay-Wah Chan

SECTION 3: Challenges to Business
Introduction to Section 3
Greg Patmore
16 Managing Consumer Co-operatives: A Historical Perspective
Greg Patmore and Nikola Balnave
17 Patterns, Limitations and Associations: The Consumer Co-operative Movement in Canada, 1828 to the Present
Ian MacPherson
18 Rochdale Consumer Co-operatives in Australia and New Zealand
Nikola Balnave and Greg Patmore
19 Consumer Co-operation in a Changing Economy: The Case of Argentina
Mirta Vuotto, Griselda Verbeke and María Eugenia Castelao Caruana
20 Fighting Monopoly and Enhancing Democracy: A Historical Overview of us Consumer Co-operatives
Greg Patmore
21 Affluence and Decline: Consumer Co-operatives in Postwar Britain
Corrado Secchi

SECTION 4
Consolidation
Introduction to Section 4
Mary Hilson
22 Going Global. The Rise of the cws as an International Commercial and Political Actor, 1863–1950: Scoping an Agenda for Further Research
Anthony Webster, John F Wilson and Rachael Vorberg-Rugh
23 Consumer Co-operation in Italy: A Network of Co-operatives with a Multi-class Constituency
Patrizia Battilani
24 Consumer Societies in Switzerland: From Local Self-help Organizations to a Single National Co-operative
Bernard Degen
25 From Commercial Trickery to Social Responsibility: Marketing in the Swedish Co-operative Movement in the Early Twentieth Century
Pernilla Jonsson
26 Building Consumer Democracy: The Trajectory of Consumer Co-operation in Japan
Akira Kurimoto
27 Against the Tide: Understanding the Commercial Success of Nordic Consumer Co-operatives, 1950–2010
Espen Ekberg

Conclusion
28 Conclusion: Consumer Co-operatives Past, Present and Future
Silke Neunsinger and Greg Patmore

Bibliography
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Mary Hilson (PhD Exeter University, 1998) is Professor of History at Aarhus University, Denmark. She has published on labor and co-operative history especially in the Nordic countries, including the co-edited Co-operatives and the Social Question: The Co-operative Movement in Northern and Eastern Europe (1880-1950) (Welsh Academic Press, 2012).

Silke Neunsinger (PhD Uppsala University, 2001) is associate professor in economic history and director of research at the Swedish labor movement archives and library. She has published extensively on the history of social movements, feminist labor history, global labor history and methodology.

Greg Patmore (PhD University of Sydney, 1985) is Professor of Business and Labor History at the University of Sydney Business School. He specialises in business, labor and co-operative history. His most recent publication is Worker Voice. Employee Representation in Australia, Canada, Germany, the UK and the US 1914-1939 (Liverpool University Press, 2016).