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	Cooperative - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Cooperatives may be generally classified as either consumer or producer cooperatives, depending largely on the mutual interest (see mutual organizations) that their membership shares.
		In for-profit cooperatives any surplus may be returned to members by way of a rebate or bonus on their activity with the cooperative, or a dividend on their shareholding in the cooperative.
		A housing cooperative is a legal mechanism for ownership of housing where residents either own shares (share capital co-op) reflecting their equity in the co-operative's real estate, or have membership and occupancy rights in a not-for-profit co-operative (non-share capital co-op), and they underwrite their housing through paying subscriptions or rent.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Cooperative (2658 words)

	cooperative movement. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
		Agricultural cooperatives are often linked with cooperative banks and credit unions, which constitute another important type of cooperative.
		The origin of cooperative philosophy is found in the writings and activities of Robert Owen, Louis Blanc, Charles Fourier, and others.
		The cooperative movement has since had considerable growth throughout Great Britain and the Commonwealth, where local cooperatives have been federated into national wholesale and retail distributive enterprises and where a large proportion of the population has membership.
	www.bartleby.com /65/co/cooperat.html (542 words)

	Money, Method, and the Market Process Ch 18
		Within the cooperative movement of all countries, it is possible to distinguish two main groups: the farmers' cooperatives and the consumers' cooperatives of the non-farming population.
		A cooperative business enterprise aims at lowering the price of soap and gasoline; it is not "a concrete expression of the brotherhood of man." [7] In their purchases, cooperatives bargain with the purveyors; in hiring help, they bargain with employees.
		The cooperative movement is entirely based on the every popular but utterly fallacious idea that profit is an unfair toll which the businessman levies on his patrons and on the contention that, by rights, the businessman should not ask more than what the merchandise cost him.
	www.mises.org /mmmp/mmmp18.asp (15137 words)

	HighBeam Encyclopedia - cooperative movement (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		COOPERATIVE MOVEMENT [cooperative movement] series of organized activities that began in the 19th cent.
		The cooperative movement in the midst of economic chaos: the Guyanese experience.
		Cooperative movement has key role in global anti-poverty efforts says Secretary-General in message to Oslo meeting.
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/c/cooperat.asp (631 words)

	The Cooperative Movement as a Model of Ecological Equilibrium
		The cooperative approach has tools of invaluable scope and effectiveness for improving the social, economic and cultural conditions of populations and thus for combating one of the primary factors causing the degradation of forest areas and the environment in general, namely poverty.
		Besides their ideology and philosophical principles, cooperative associations adopt an administrative structure that is characterized by collective management, ongoing education and interest in the community, all aspects that are conducive to genuine sustainable development.
		As the cooperative movement is a sustainable entrepreneurial model that is also socially and economically viable, governments need to be urged to encourage such an approach by providing an appropriate legislative framework that will promote cooperatives and allow them to compete on equal terms with other forms of entrepreneurial activity.
	www.fao.org /DOCREP/ARTICLE/WFC/XII/MS22-E.HTM (1682 words)

	The Hindu : Karnataka / Belgaum News : Infusing life into the cooperative movement (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		BELGAUM: The Karnataka State Federation of Cooperative Societies, the Information Department and the Karnataka Madhyama Academy have organised a seminar on "100 years of the cooperative movement: The role of the media," for journalists to be held in Hubli on Monday.
		Ever since the movement took an organised form in the country in 1904, thanks to cooperators who converted it into a people's movement, its contribution is reflected in considerably eliminating exploitation by moneylenders and coordinating agricultural activities towards rural empowerment.
		In Karnataka, sugar factories have become synonymous with the cooperative movement and their performance are considered as a measure of the success or failure of the movement.
	www.hindu.com /2006/01/23/stories/2006012303660300.htm (498 words)

	Cooperative Movement
		While member labor is a method frequently used by smaller cooperatives to keep the costs of operations low (thereby maximizing savings to members), member labor is not a principle or even an overwhelming characteristic of the cooperative movement.
		The contemporary NASCO is composed mainly of student cooperatives and serves as the voice of a strong and future-oriented movement.
		Student cooperatives are considered to be unique in relation to the rest of the cooperative movement in many respects.
	www.umich.edu /~nasco/OrgHand/movement.html (3213 words)

	David Thompson - Co-ops & Competition
		One of the great and yet unsolved dilemmas facing cooperatives today is how to maintain sustainability as a locally controlled independent economic unit in a competitive market dominated by larger and larger players who have neither respect nor interest in community or national borders.
		Cooperatives in the modern sense have been around since the people of Rochdale, England founded their co-op in 1844.
		The consumer cooperatives of Europe were the first to organize group purchasing, wholesales, transportation networks, and a host of allied services, such as banking and insurance.
	www.context.org /ICLIB/IC36/Thompson.htm (862 words)

	Indian cooperative movement: bracing up for change
		"Cooperatives cannot afford to be left behind in the use of IT, which enables fast communication and provides simultaneous handling of a large number of variables.
		Cooperatives have many advantages in tackling problems of poverty alleviation, employment generation and food security.
		The cooperative movement in India traces its origin to the agriculture and allied sector.
	www.rediff.com /money/2004/sep/18coop.htm (729 words)

	Denmark - Production and Communications - The Cooperative Movement (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		In agriculture's cooperative movement and in the cooperative (wholesale) stores the members have always been single individuals, while in the workers' cooperative movement it has been the trade unions.
		There is no special legislation in Denmark governing the cooperative movement, but from its early days in the 1880s and right up to the present, the movement has developed on the basis of members' needs and the constant practical adaptation of the movement's fundamental principles to the demands of the day.
		The cooperative movement in Denmark is felt to be an integral part of the community and business, which many Danes encounter as consumers (cooperative stores) or as producers (agriculture, market gardening and fishing).
	www.um.dk /publikationer/UM/English/Denmark/kap2/2-13_old.asp (709 words)

	Cooperative - CounterCulture
		A cooperative (also co-operative or co-op) is an association of persons who join together to carry on an economic activity of mutual benefit.
		Cooperatives may be generally classified as either consumer or producer cooperatives, depending largely on their membership.
		The cooperative movement often has links and associations with Green politics or Socialism, with ethical investment, and with the Social Enterprise movement.
	counterculture.wikia.com /wiki/Cooperative (2549 words)

	[01 Jul 1996]: PRESS BRIEFING ON COOPERATIVE MOVEMENT (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		Cooperatives have an important role to play in implementing the programmes of action of the recent global conferences, Under-Secretary-General for Policy Coordination and Sustainable Development Nitin Desai said this afternoon, at a press briefing held following a meeting of cooperative representatives at Headquarters.
		Melmoth said they could be encouraged to enact legislation congenial to cooperatives and to urge the United Nations to support a plan of action promoting the cause of cooperatives.
		Unfortunately, cooperative organizations had not been able to encourage the World Bank and other multilateral agencies to employ the movement-to- movement approach, he said.
	www.un.org /News/briefings/docs/1996/19960701.coop.html (687 words)

	The Practical Utopians: American Workers and the Cooperative Movement in the Gilded Age
		However, until now we have not had a modern study of the cooperative movement that places it in its historical context and appreciates the burden of promise which so many workers invested in it.
		Despite the fact that many of the early leaders of the Knights of Labor harbored cooperative ideals, the Order proved to be an ineffective vehicle for the cooperative movement.
		These cooperators were not utopians, but rather male heads of households seeking to make it to old age without upsetting the status quo.
	eh.net /bookreviews/library/0919.shtml (1199 words)

	The Hindu : Book Review : The cooperative movement
		It is unfortunate that the cooperative movement in India, which is 100 years old, is passing through a difficult phase.
		Hence, if the cooperative movement has to sustain, a clean break from the past has to be introduced in the management of cooperative societies, which the author has stressed in this book.
		The author also deals with the history of the cooperatives, problems related to credit and banking, policy and operational aspects related to the functioning of cooperatives, especially with relation to credit in Tamil Nadu, and the public distribution system.
	www.hindu.com /br/2006/02/14/stories/2006021400661500.htm (375 words)

	Venezuela’s Cooperatives Take First Steps Towards National Cooperative Movement
		The first National assembly of Cooperative Councils was held in the State of Cojedes in January, where more than 600 cooperative members from across the country met to discuss the first steps in the creation of the embryonic Venezuela cooperative movement.
		Among the proposals, were the possibility of a national cooperative bank, a national cooperative education plan, and further involvement in international conferences, such as the ICA reunion in Peru this summer.
		The present cooperative boom is largely as a result of a very clear Venezuelan state policy of cooperative promotion in the form of financing, preferential taxation, state-contracting, and cooperative education and job-training programs.
	www.venezuelanalysis.com /articles.php?artno=1739 (1456 words)

	Politics News
		Khaleda Zia said her government had taken various measures to bolster the cooperative movement, which is now losing impetus.
		President of Bangladesh Cooperatives Union Abdul Ali Mridha, Registrar of the Cooperatives Directorate Khandakar Mizanur Rahman and Director General of Bangladesh Rural Development Board AFM Motiur Rahman also spoke at the function held at the Osmani Memorial Auditorium in the city.
		Fifteen individuals and 16 cooperatives received the National Cooperative Award 2003 at the function attended by ministers, lawmakers, and a large number of cooperative movement players.
	independent-bangladesh.com /news/nov/07/07112004pl.htm (2702 words)

	Xak.com: Cooperative Movement eyes insurance market
		The Cooperative Movement is paving its way towards an entry on the Cypriot insurance market and is expected to make some crucial decisions towards the end of the month.
		Last August, the Cooperative Movement had a round of negotiations with German insurance giant Allianz, which were aimed at creating a joint venture in the insurance field.
		According to information obtained by Phileleftheros, the Cooperative Movement intends to move into the insurance sector with or without cooperation with Allianz and has thought of alternative scenarios should an agreement with the German company fall through.
	www.xak.com /main/newsshow.asp?id=7572 (208 words)

	The New Cooperative Movement In Venezuela’s Bolivarian Process
		Although cooperatives are expected to initially produce for self-sufficiency and those local markets they can reach with their own resources, production for national and foreign markets are not rejected, but actively pursued.
		They argued that the government’s promotion of cooperatives is irresponsible and opportunistic because they have made it too easy to create a cooperative (the requirement of proving feasibility was eliminated), and that they are been used for political agendas.
		In articles three and four of the 2001 Law of Cooperatives, it’s stated that “social responsibility” and “commitment with the community” are, respectively, among the values and principles of cooperatives.
	www.venezuelanalysis.com /articles.php?artno=1631 (3254 words)

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	Women in the Cooperative Movement (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		Due to the social structure and attitudes of the era in which the co-operative movement developed, very few women played centre stage in the efforts put forth to improve the education of the townspeople.
		In 1937, she visited Nova Scotia as a member of the Cooperative League of the United States of America with the intention of studying the Antigonish Movement.
		Women's Guilds were formed in order to exhibit the handicrafts and the guilds organized in conjunction with the cooperative stores were formed with the aim of educating members of the store as well as giving women the chance to gain greater interest in community affairs.
	collections.ic.gc.ca /co-op/women.htm (980 words)

	A.1.3. WHAT IS THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN MUTUALISM AND THE COOPERATIVE MOVEMENT?
		Look at it this way, mutualism is a set of general principles and the co-ops are one of the practical forms that these principles have taken.
		Historically, the practical forms were developed by the working class before the general principles were propounded by political philosophers.
		The problem today is the loss of consciousness of cooperatives as the embodiment of a form of mutualist practice.
	www.mutualist.org /id27.html (94 words)

	HYDERABAD: Plan to revive cooperative movement, says minister -DAWN - Local; 12 August, 2004
		He said unfortunately the system of cooperative societies failed due to apathy of organizations concerned and cooperators as such Rs1125.709 millions were outstanding against 641 cooperative societies in Sindh.
		The chairman of the Sindh Chamber of Agriculture, Syed Qamar Zaman Shah, said the movement of cooperative societies failed due to interference of governments for their political motives.
		Agha Shahabuddin said cooperative societies were essential for the development of agriculture sector.
	www.dawn.com /2004/08/12/local22.htm (555 words)

	cooperative movement
		cooperative movement: History - History The origin of cooperative philosophy is found in the writings and activities of Robert...
		cooperative movement: Bibliography - Bibliography See J. Berry and M. Roberts, Co-op Management and Employment (1984); E. Spanner,...
		cooperative movement: Types of Cooperatives - Types of Cooperatives An old and widespread form is the consumers' cooperative, in which people...
	www.factmonster.com /ce6/society/A0813450.html (151 words)

	Marx, Marxism and the cooperative movement -- Jossa 29 (1): 3 -- Cambridge Journal of Economics
		Marx, Marxism and the cooperative movement -- Jossa 29 (1): 3 -- Cambridge Journal of Economics
		cooperative movement and of the passages from Marx (and Engels)
		Please note that abstracts for content published before 1996 were created through digital scanning and may therefore not exactly replicate the text of the original print issues.
	hdl.handle.net /10.1093/cje/bei012 (245 words)

	Cooperave Hall of Fame
		Each year a select few men and women are honored because of their genuinely heroic contributions to the enhancement of cooperative enterprise and to the advancement of the principles of cooperation.
		It is fitting that the occasion to bestow the highest honor of the co-op community on those individuals who have selflessly given of their lives to promote cooperatives, is also a vehicle to raise funds to perpetuate their work and life-long commitment.
		He believes that a cooperative is the best thing for a farmer, and always looks for cooperative solutions to challenges.
	www.coopheroes.org (313 words)

	cooperative movement
		Lessons from the History of Affordable Housing Cooperatives in the United States: A Case Study in American Affordable Housing Policy....
		Cooperative motherhood and democratic civic culture in postwar suburbia, 1940-1965.
		Worker cooperatives and the business cycle: are cooperatives the answer to unemployment?
	www.infoplease.com /ce6/society/A0813450.html (274 words)

	AllRefer.com - cooperative movement (Social Reform) - Encyclopedia
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		cooperative movement, series of organized activities that began in the 19th cent.
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