International Co-Operative Movement

By Johnston Birchall

Book Overview

This study traces the history and development of the International Co-operative Movement, from its foundation in 1895 to the present. It shows how the movement grew in different countries in response... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0719048249
• ISBN13: 9780719048241
• Release Date: November 1997
• Publisher: Manchester University Press
• Length: 280 Pages
• Weight: 1.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.3" x 0.8" x 6.5"

Customer Reviews

Overall excellent work

I've had a chance to review some portions of this book, and find it an excellent review of history and workings of cooperative movements worldwide. I was looking for dimensions of Japan, and found some good material with an ample bibliograpy. My additional interest in the American and UK accounts were not disappointed. There is more, with discussions of the situations in Africa, for example. I have seen a report authored by Birchall at the UN COPAC website. I did not find much consideration of theoretical perspectives, which are better discussed in works of Herman Daly and David Ellerman, and papers by Ann Milford held at the Fair Trade Labelling Organization. William Greider's The Soul of Capitalism is an excellent contemporary survey and extremely readable, while Mark Lutz's Economics for the Common Good is a more academic survey, and very good to probe theory.