An overview of the development of cooperatives over the last fifty years, addressing the major challenges that they face in the future.

Co-operatives provide a different approach to organizing business through their ideals of member ownership and democratic practice. Every co-operative member ha

However, in the second half of the twentieth century co-operatives experienced a protracted period of decline, facing a series of internal structural challenges

Cooperative Enterprises is the first textbook to examine the evolution of the cooperative enterprise model and the contribution that cooperatives can make to th

With contributions from over 30 scholars, A Global History of Consumer Co-operation surveys the origins and development of the consumer co-operative movement fr