A cooperative is "an autonomous association of persons united voluntarily to meet their common economic, social and cultural needs and aspirations through a jointly owned and democratically-controlled
The volunteer board of a retail consumer cooperative, such as the former Oxford, Swindon & Gloucester Co-op, is held to account at an annual general meeting of members.
Robert Owen (1771–1858) was a social reformer and a pioneer of the cooperative movement.
The statue of Samuel Jurkovič, national awakener and founder of first cooperative in Central Europe (Spolok Gazdovský) in Rača, Bratislava
Cooperative of agricultural products of Alginet, 1963
The United Kingdom is home to a widespread and diverse co-operative movement, with over 7,000 registered co-operatives owned by 17 million individual members and which contribute £34bn a year to the B
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…British Co-operative Party, the Canadian Cooperative Commonwealth Federation and United Farmers of Alberta are prime examples of such arrangements. The British cooperative movement formed the Co-operative Party in the early 20th century to represent members of consumer cooperatives in Parliament, which was the first of its kind…
1865 photograph of 13 of the Rochdale Pioneers, who in 1844 established the Rochdale Society of Equitable Pioneers
The original Rochdale Pioneers shop, now home to the Rochdale Pioneers museum
The Grosmont Co-operative Society remains an independent co-op store.
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