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
A consumers' co-operative is an enterprise owned by consumers and managed democratically and that aims at fulfilling the needs and aspirations of its members. Such co-operatives operate within the mar
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…Worker cooperatives: businesses owned and managed by the people who work there Consumer cooperatives: businesses owned and managed by the people who consume goods and/or services provided by the cooperative Producer cooperatives: businesses where…
Raunds Co-operative Society Limited was a consumers' co-operative society based in Raunds, Northamptonshire, founded in 1891.
Model of Robert Owen's visionary project for a co-operative settlement. Owenites fired bricks to build it, but construction never took place.
The Rochdale Society of Equitable Pioneers was established in 1844 and defined the modern co-operative movement.
January 1947 Co-op Magazine back cover designed as a promotional poster