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Record Nr.

UNINA9910463144903321

Titolo

The hidden alternative [[electronic resource] ] : co-operative values, past, present and future / / edited by Anthony Webster ... [et al.]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, : United Nations University Press, 2012

ISBN

92-808-7182-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (378 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

WebsterAnthony

Disciplina

334

Soggetti

Cooperative societies

Cooperation

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

The hidden alternative? / Anthony Webster, Linda Shaw, David Stewart, John K. Walton and Alyson Brown -- Co-operativism meets city ethics : the 1997 Lanica take-over bid for CWS / John F. Wilson -- Values and vocation : educating the co-operative workforce, 1918-39 / Keith Vernon -- International perspectives on co-operative education / Linda Shaw -- Co-operative education in Britain during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries : context, identity and learning / Tom Woodin -- Beyond a fair price / Samantha Lacey -- Negotiating consumer and producer interests : a challenge for the co-operative movement and fair trade / Katarina Friberg -- "A party within a party" : the co-operative party-labour party alliance and the formation of the social democratic party, 1974-81 / David Stewart -- The creation of new entities : stakeholders and shareholders in nineteenth-century Italian co-operatives / Patrizia Battilani -- Co-operatives and nation-building in post-apartheid South Africa : contradictions and challenges / Vishwas Satgar and Michelle Williams -- Community, individuality and co-operation : the centrality of values / Ian MacPherson -- An alternative co-operative tradition : the Basque co-operatives of MondragoĢn / Fernando Molina and John K. Walton -- "A co-operative of intellectuals" : the encounter between co-operative values and urban planning : an Italian case study / Marzia Maccaferri -- Government to governance : the challenge of co-operative revival in India / L. K. Vaswani -- Minding



the GAAP : co-operative responses to the global convergence of accounting standards and practice / John Maddocks, Elizabeth Hicks, Alan J. Robb and Tom Webb -- Resting on laurels : examining the resilience of co-operative values in times of calm and crisis / Jan Myers, John Maddocks and James Beecher -- Shared visions of co-operation at a time of crisis : the Gung Ho story in China's anti-Japanese resistance / Ian G. Cook and Jenny Clegg -- The hidden alternative : conclusion / Ed Mayo -- Index.