Cooperative Commonwealth
Subtitle: Co-Ops in Rural Minnesota, 1859-1939
Publisher: Minnesota Historical Society Press
Published: March 2000
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 457
ISBN-13: 9780873513777
Subjects: American history: c 1800 to c 1900; American history: from c 1900 -; Cultural studies; Rural communities; Work & labour; Sociology - Rural; Economic History; Agricultural Cooperatives; Minnesota - Local History; History - U.S.; Business/Economics; Minnesota; History; United States - State & Local - General; Agriculture, Cooperative; Agriculture - General; Cooperation; Cooperative societies
Description: By 1940, Minnesota was known as one the most cooperative-minded states in the Union. More than 600 cooperative creameries, 150 township mutual fire insurance companies, hundreds of rural telephone associations, and 270 farmers' elevators were proof of the power of economic cooperation, and they made Minnesota into a "cooperative commonwealth."