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Showing 1 to 13 of 13 for “"Co-operative movement"”.
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The British retail co-operative movement
The research concluded that whilst the Co-operative Movement has identifiable qualities and characteristics which are (or could be made to be) different from its competitors, it has as yet not shown a determination or consistency of purpose in making the most of these elements to further its aims …
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The silk weavers of Kanchipuram: a case study of the Indian co-operative movement
<p>This study is concerned with the effect a planned system of economic growth and the development of the co-operative movement as national policy has had on one local group of people for whom these policies have been devised. The silk weavers of Kanchipuram, a city located in Madras State, are the …
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Co-operative Commonwealth or New Jerusalem? The Co-operative Party and the Labour Party, 1931-1951.
The Co-operative Party, despite representing the largest consumer and social movement in Britain, is systematically overlooked or misunderstood in twentieth century British political historiography. What makes this neglect more surprising is that from 1927 the Co-operative Party had a formal …
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The Growth and Development of Coffee and Cotton Marketing Co-operatives in Tanzania, c.1932-1982
By the mid-1970s, Tanzania had the biggest co-operative movement in Africa and the oldest in East Africa. Despite such achievement, for decades, the literature on Tanzania’s small-scale coffee and cotton cultivation and marketing co-operatives has suffered from a dearth of substantive historical …
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An in depth analysis of the development of the taxation of co-operatives in South Africa and whether this aligns with their economic purpose.
In this study, after providing background on the co-operative movement both internationally and in the South African context and an indication of what the success of the co-operative sector could mean for South Africa from a socio-economic perspective, an analysis of the tax legislation as it …
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Leadership in Times of Change: An Examination of a Merger Experience
Mergers continue to increase globally. Leaders have a critical role in the success of those mergers based on the practices that they employ during this change phenomenon. This study examines leadership practices within a financial organization during a merger and explores how these practices …
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‘Save Spain’: British Support for the Spanish Republic within Civil Society in Britain, 1936–1939
… thesis offers a novel framework through which to consider this topic. It explores the popular humanitarian response to ‘Spain’ within the context of Britain’s bourgeoning civil society and popular political culture, following the advent of mass democracy in 1928. There has perhaps been a recent …
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Regional co-operative development : the Mondragon example
The Thesis examines the dynamics of the Mondragon Co-operative system in the Basque Region of Spain, and assesses the implications which the system has for co-operative movements in other regions. The polarities of co-operative independence and interdependence at Mondragon are examined in the …
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<i>‘There is only one P in Perth - And, it stands for Pullars!'</i>: the Labour, Trade-Union, and Co-operative Movements in Perth, c. 1867 to c. 1922
In recent years a number of studies within Scottish labour history have added to the discipline’s understanding and knowledge of the history of the labour and trade-union movements of several Scottish towns/cities hitherto neglected by a historiography traditionally dominated by research into the …
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One Bad Board Away from Bankruptcy: Housing Co-operatives, Self-Management, and the Landlord–Tenant Relationship
… thesis explores the development of the natural condition of co-operation into a large, apolitical movement and the effects of reshaping working-class people into co-operators. Semi- structured interviews, content analysis, and a limited autoethnography through a community- based action research …
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An Economic Analysis of Selected Production Co-Operatives in Saskatchewan
This thesis contains an examination of the co-operative approach to agricultural production to determine the extent of economic benefits and disadvantages associated with its use in Saskatchewan. More specifically, the operations of selected machinery co—operatives and co-operative farms …