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Mainstreaming co-operation : an alternative for the twenty-first century? /

This collection considers the transformation that has taken place over the last 30 years in the global position of co-operative and mutual business models, from the prevailing view of the investor-led model in the 1980s to the aftermath of the 2008 financial crisis and revival of the co-operative mo...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Webster, Anthony (Editor ), Shaw, Linda (Linda M.) (Editor ), Vorberg-Rugh, Rachael (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2016.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 1. Introduction
  • Anthony Webster, Linda Shaw and Rachael Vorberg-Rugh 2. Mainstreaming co-operatives after the global financial crisis
  • Claudia Sanchez Bajo and Bruno Roelants 3. Our agencies: persuasion and the value of a concept to mainstreaming co-operation
  • Philip Grant 4. G.J. Holyoake (1807-1906): a resource for a journey of hope?
  • Stephen Yeo 5. History, citizenship and co-operative education, c. 1895-1930
  • Keith Vernon 6. 'The unit of the co-operative movement ... is a woman': gender and the development of the co-operative business model in Britain
  • Rachael Vorberg-Rugh 7. A continuing challenge: women and leadership in co-operatives
  • Barbara Rawlings and Linda Shaw 8. The wasted years? The Co-operative Party during the 1930s
  • Angela Whitecross 9. New models of ownership and governance
  • Cliff Mills and Ruth Yeoman 10. Co-operatives in health care: global prospects for the development of co-operatives as instruments of consumer-centred health care
  • Vern Hughes 11. Rising numbers of architectural co-operatives in an uncertain construction economy
  • Stephen McCusker 12. Co-operatives and climate protection: housing co-operatives in Germany
  • Carolin Schröder and Heike Walk 13. The co-operative identity: good for poverty reduction?
  • Rowshan Hannan 14. What do we really know about workers' co-operatives?
  • Virginie Pérotin 15. The impact of the co-operative ethos on the creation of shared value: a case study of Lincolnshire Co-operative Society
  • Phil Considine and Martin Hingley 16. Learning to swim against the tide: crises and co-operative credibility
  • some international and historical examples
  • Anthony Webster, Linda Shaw, Rachael Vorberg-Rugh, John F. Wilson and Ian Snaith Index.