Global History of Consumer Co-operation since 1850

Mary Hilson (PhD Exeter University, 1998) is Professor of History at Aarhus University, Denmark. She has published on labor and co-operative history especially in the Nordic countries, including the co-edited Co-operatives and the Social Question: The Co-operative Movement in Northern and Eastern Europe (1880-1950) (Welsh Academic Press, 2012).Silke Neunsinger (PhD Uppsala University, 2001) is associate professor in economic history and director of research at the Swedish labor movement archives and library. She has published extensively on the history of social movements, feminist labor history, global labor history and methodology.Greg Patmore (PhD University of Sydney, 1985) is Professor of Business and Labor History at the University of Sydney Business School. He specialises in business, labor and co-operative history. His most recent publication is Worker Voice. Employee Representation in Australia, Canada, Germany, the UK and the US 1914-1939 (Liverpool University Press, 2016).

"Anyone working on the cooperative movement will have this book on their bookshelves. It very much assembles the state of the art in the history of consumer cooperation." - Stefan Berger, "What is New in the History of Social Movements?", in: Moving the Social, Volume 59 (2018), pp. 115-127 [DOI: 10.13154/mts.59.2018.115-127]"By illuminating the divergent histories of consumer cooperative movements in industrialized countries in Europe, North America, and Asia, A Global History makes an important contribution to scholarship. [...] Hilson and her collaborators will remain widely read for decades." - Carl J. Strikwerda, in: International Review of Social History 63:1 (2018), pp. 127–142 [DOI:10.1017/S0020859017000670]"The book is not uncritical of divisions between co-ops over markets, or of the tensions between cheap goods, colonial production, and ethical matters, or of failures such as the Berkeley co-op. Like its subject, this book is unwieldy, yet worldly; its ambitions are greater than the sum of its parts, but those parts are very rewarding in their detail—and those ambitions are inestimably worthy, enduring, and global." - Lawrence Black, in: Economic History Review 71:2 (2018), pp. 692-694

• AcknowledgementsList of IllustrationsList of AbbreviationsNotes on ContributorsIntroduction1 A Global History of Consumer Co-operation since 1850: IntroductionMary Hilson, Silke Neunsinger and Greg Patmore2 Co-operative History: Movements and BusinessesMary HilsonSECTION 1: Origins and ModelsIntroduction to Section 1Mary Hilson3 Rochdale and Beyond: Consumer Co-operation in Britain before 1945Mary Hilson4 The Belgian Co-operative Model: Elements of Success and FailureGeert Van Goethem5 History of Consumer Co-operatives in France: From the Conquest of Consumption by the Masses to the Challenge of Mass ConsumptionSimon Lambersens, Amélie Artis, Danièle Demoustier and Alain Mélo6 Consumer Co-operation in the Nordic Countries, c. 1860–1939Mary Hilson7 Canadian and us Catholic Promotion of Co-operatives in Central America and the Caribbean and Their Political ImplicationsSusan Fitzpatrick-Behrens and Catherine C LeGrand8 African American Consumer Co-operation: History and Global ConnectionsJessica Gordon Nembhard9 A Co-operative Take on Free Trade: International Ambitions and Regional Initiatives in International Co-operative TradeKatarina FribergSECTION 2: Challenges to Democracy – State InterventionIntroduction to Section 2Silke Neunsinger10 German Co-operatives: Rise and Fall 1850–1970Michael Prinz11 The Rise and Fall of Austria’s Consumer Co-operativesJohann Brazda, Florian Jagschitz, Siegfried Rom and Robert Schediwy12 Consumer Co-operatives in Portugal: Debates and Experiences from the Nineteenth to the Twentieth CenturyDulce Freire and Joana Dias Pereira13 Consumer Co-operatives in Spain 1860–2010Francisco J Medina-Albaladejo14 The Experience of the Consumer Co-operative Movement in Korea: Its Break off and RebirthKim Hyung-mi15 Consumer Co-operatives in the People’s Republic of China – A Development Path Shaped by Its Economic and Political HistoryMary Ip and Kay-Wah ChanSECTION 3: Challenges to BusinessIntroduction to Section 3Greg Patmore16 Managing Consumer Co-operatives: A Historical PerspectiveGreg Patmore and Nikola Balnave17 Patterns, Limitations and Associations: The Consumer Co-operative Movement in Canada, 1828 to the PresentIan MacPherson18 Rochdale Consumer Co-operatives in Australia and New ZealandNikola Balnave and Greg Patmore19 Consumer Co-operation in a Changing Economy: The Case of ArgentinaMirta Vuotto, Griselda Verbeke and María Eugenia Castelao Caruana20 Fighting Monopoly and Enhancing Democracy: A Historical Overview of us Consumer Co-operativesGreg Patmore21 Affluence and Decline: Consumer Co-operatives in Postwar BritainCorrado SecchiSECTION 4ConsolidationIntroduction to Section 4Mary Hilson22 Going Global. The Rise of the cws as an International Commercial and Political Actor, 1863–1950: Scoping an Agenda for Further ResearchAnthony Webster, John F Wilson and Rachael Vorberg-Rugh23 Consumer Co-operation in Italy: A Network of Co-operatives with a Multi-class ConstituencyPatrizia Battilani24 Consumer Societies in Switzerland: From Local Self-help Organizations to a Single National Co-operativeBernard Degen25 From Commercial Trickery to Social Responsibility: Marketing in the Swedish Co-operative Movement in the Early Twentieth CenturyPernilla Jonsson26 Building Consumer Democracy: The Trajectory of Consumer Co-operation in JapanAkira Kurimoto27 Against the Tide: Understanding the Commercial Success of Nordic Consumer Co-operatives, 1950–2010Espen EkbergConclusion28 Conclusion: Consumer Co-operatives Past, Present and FutureSilke Neunsinger and Greg PatmoreBibliographyIndex