Mainstreaming co-operation An alternative for the twenty-first century? /
Vorberg-Rugh, Rachael,editor.
Shaw, Linda(Linda M.),editor.
Webster, Anthony,editor.
This collection considers the transformation that has taken place over the last thirty 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 movement.
Specialized.
This collection considers the transformation that has taken place over the last thirty 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 movement.
Specialized.
Includes index.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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 P̌rotin -- 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.
Description based on print version record.
Cooperative societies.
Cooperative societies.