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	Rochdale Co-op (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		The Rochdale Principles were developed later, in the 1860s, as a means of consolidating the key elements of the success of the Pioneers in one set of easily understandable principles.
		Although the principle was written this way (one man, one vote), a section of the rules of 1844 talks of the resignation of members in language that clearly anticipates both men and women leaving, therefore theirjoining.
		The drafters of the revised principles are well aware of the social and economic changes occurring throughout the globe and that there are members of cooperatives and credit unions in almost every corner of the globe.
	cooperativegrocer.coop /cg1994/rochdale.shtml (3009 words)

	coop theory
		Co-ops are expected to educate their members, officers, and employees and of the general public in the principles and techniques of cooperation, both economic and democratic.
		The Rochdale Pioneers weren't the first group to try forming a co-op but they were the first to make their co-op succeed and endure.
		Rochdale is still considered the birthplace of the modern cooperative movement.
	pasta.cantbedone.org /pages/Q83tjx.htm (1937 words)

	Rochdale Principles - Search Results - MSN Encarta (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Rochdale Principles - Search Results - MSN Encarta
		- principles distinguishing cooperatives: a set of principles drawn up in 1844 that are used to distinguish cooperatives from investor-owned companies
		Rochdale, borough, metropolitan county of Greater Manchester, northern England, on the Roch River.
	encarta.msn.com /Rochdale_Principles.html (109 words)

	Encyclopedia
		The principles developed for the guidance of this enterprise and others organized by the Rochdale Society have served, with modifications in emphasis, as the basic code of the consumer cooperative movement since that time.
		The Rochdale Society developed a number of supplemental principles, which are generally observed in contemporary consumer cooperatives.
		The successful example of cooperative business provided by the Rochdale Society, which also established between 1850 and 1855 a flour mill, a shoe factory, and a textile plant, was quickly emulated throughout the country.
	www.history.com /encyclopedia.do?vendorId=FWNE.fw..co211500.a#FWNE.fw..co211500.a (2286 words)

	Co-operative values and principles: a commentary (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		To the Rochdale Pioneers, the principle of one member one vote (regardless of size of shareholding) was so taken for granted that they did not put it in their rules until 1845.
		By 1966 the dividend principle had become a more general statement about the use of surpluses: they could be retained for development of the business; used to provide common services; or distributed as a dividend to members in proportion to their transactions.
		The principle of open membership does not impinge directly on the others, but it can be seen as a precondition for fairness in the third principle, member economic participation; if entry to a co-op is discriminatory, the sharing out of the benefits is not as equitable as it seems.
	www.co-opstudies.org /Journal/Sept_97/Co-operative_values_and_principles_a_commentary.htm (8158 words)

	The History Cooperative \| Conference Proceedings \| ASSLH \| Rochdale consumer co-operatives and Australian labour history
		Annette Salt in her study of the women on the Northern Coalfields during the Great Depression notes that refusal of the Kurri Kurri Co-operative to merge with the Newcastle and Suburban Co-operative during the 1980s was a measure of the strength of community identity or localism in the town.
		Mauldon was very critical of the Australian Rochdale movement noting that there was little of the 'buoyant idealism' that characterised the UK movement and claimed that the majority of the co-operative shareholders were little more than 'dividend hunters'.
		The Rochdale movement in Australia was unable to form alliances with the labour movement and agricultural co-operatives.
	www.historycooperative.org /proceedings/asslh/balnave.html (5212 words)

	Consumer co-operatives in retrospect and prospect
		When co-operative principles were codified in the form of the 'Rochdale Principles' in 1844, the Rochdale 'pioneers', as they were known, did not bother to specify that customers should be members; it was taken for granted that they would be.
		There was a principle of giving no more than a fixed and limited return on shares, which were not revalued in line with the value of the business but remained at their original value.
		There was the principle of one member having one vote regardless of the size of shareholding, an education principle that encouraged societies to spend part of their surpluses on educating their members, and a principle of political and religious neutrality.
	www.greeneconomics.net /text-chap4.htm (9624 words)

	KIUC - Kauai Island Utility Co-op
		It was here in 1844 that a group of 28 factory workers, living in Rochdale (pronounced "Rotch-dale"), sought to gain control over their economic destiny by forming a cooperative called the Rochdale Equitable Pioneers Society.
		The seven principles were first introduced in the U.S. in 1874 by the National Grange, a farmer cooperative founded in 1867, and form the basis for the cooperative movement today.
		Toad Lane is considered the birthplace of modern cooperatives because the principles and practices of the Pioneers assured the success of the cooperative model.
	www.kiuc.coop /coop/history.htm (1025 words)

	Ammonia for Farmers
		To assist you in communicating the "principles of cooperation," and their importance in a modern cooperative organization, a detailed discussion of each principle follows.
		The Rochdale pioneers recognized that they had to provide the equity to start their cooperative, and they were responsible for maintaining the cash needed for the day to day operations.
		Therefore, the duty to educate present and future members was established as one of the principles necessary for the success of the cooperative.
	www.conservfs.com /understanding_coops.htm (2434 words)

	The Nickel City Housing Co-op
		This common bond of ideals and principles of modern cooperation is traced back to 1844 when a group of 29 weavers pooled their savings and opened the first successful consumer co-op on Toad Lane in Rochdale, England.
		In bringing their social vision to life, the Rochdale Pioneers developed specific guidelines for the operation of their co-op.
		Principles: The co-operative principles are guidelines by which co-operatives put their values into practice.
	www.nickelcitycoop.org /rochdale.php (552 words)

	Rochdale MBC - Living - Community (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Rochdale Borough Local Strategic Partnership is open to anyone with an interest in the Borough, whether they live or work here and brings together all of the key groups and organisations responsible for the delivery of services within the Borough.
		Rochdale Borough is part of Greater Manchester, and Manchester itself now has a positive high profile in the world attracting investment in many new and growing business sectors such as ICT, culture and media, together with bio-technology and other research based companies dependent on the local concentration of high quality higher education and healthcare.
		Rochdale Canal by identifying opportunities for innovative regeneration projects; creating employment opportunities and up-grading the environment of all areas through which the Canal runs; and requiring high design standards on all developments adjoining it;
	www.rochdale.gov.uk /Living/Community.asp?URL=PP2 (1878 words)

	Cooperative Principles
		A cooperative is legally bound by the state and the IRS to the cooperative principles.
		It is organized under Section 501 (c) (12) of the Internal Revenue Code, which requires that it be organized for the benefit of their members and operated through democratic elections.
		In 1843, the Rochdale Equitable Pioneers Society--one of the first successful cooperatives--developed the Rochdale Cooperative Principles, which call on co-ops to be responsive to their members and be independent of outside control.
	www.nmelectric.coop /principles.php (952 words)

	Statement of Cooperative Identity (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		In the tradition of their founders, co-operative members believe in the ethical values of honesty, openness, social responsibility, and caring for others.
		The co-operative principles are guidelines by which co-operatives put their values into practice.
		Co-operatives are voluntary organisations, open to all persons able to use their services and willing to accept the responsibilities of membership, without gender, social, racial, political, or religious discrimination.
	www.umich.edu /~nasco/principles.html (431 words)

	Cooperative
		Unlike a union, a cooperative may assign different numbers of vote s to different members; typically a cooperative is governed proportion ally according to each member's level of economic interest in the cooperative.
		A few poor weavers joined together to form the Rochdale Equitable Pioneers Society at the end of 1843.
		The Rochdale Pioneers, as they became known, set out the "Rochdale Principles" in 1844, which form the basis of the cooperative movement today.
	www.nebulasearch.com /encyclopedia/article/Cooperative.html (818 words)

	Why Co-ops?: How Has Cooperative Business Grown? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		By the time the Rochdale cooperative was fifteen years old, its reputation and its rules were known in America.
		The first attempt to put the Rochdale principles into practice in this country was made by a cooperative formed in 1862 by a Philadelphia labor union.
		They were the first to apply Rochdale principles to the selling of farm commodities as well as to the buying of farm supplies.
	www.historians.org /projects/giroundtable/Coops/Coops1.htm (1361 words)

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		The establishment of the Rochdale cooperative is basically a case study in how one group of workers organized themselves in response to the changing economic times of the Industrial Revolution.
		Women in surrounding areas were reported ``to give birth standing up, their arms round two other women, because they had no change of bedclothing; the very people who had spent their lives weaving clothes and blankets for the world had come down to this, rags on their backs and no blankets on their beds'' [4].
		It built 25 small cottages on Spotland Road in Rochdale, although due to the high cost of the land and construction most of the houses were still too high for the common worker.
	uts.cc.utexas.edu /~laurel/cooproots/history.html (1946 words)

	Co-operation and collectives
		It is run according to the Rochdale principles, and currently houses 900 students, but its buildings have been described as “a dive” by many tenants and members lack a co-operative spirit.
		Although each is required to put in from one to three hours a week of work for one of the various committees in the co-op, they generally see these tasks as a part of their rent payment and not as something they can do for the community as a whole.
		It is also run as according to the Rochdale principles, but its members tend to speak of the co-op as a community and usually feel that they are contributing to the group when they invest their time in the co-op.
	www.theorem.ca /~mvcorks/code/cooperatives.html (1906 words)

	Co-operation (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		It had become clear to working people in Rochdale and their enlightened supporters among the middle-class that, if things were going to get better, they could not expect help from either the government or their capitalist employers.
		These Rochdale Pioneers formulated the Rochdale Principles upon which their version of co-operation were founded.
		However, when the Rochdale Savings Bank collapsed in 1849, due to the fact that one of its underwriting mill owners George Howarth had embezzled the funds to prop up his own failing business, people turned to the Rochdale Equitable Pioneers Society so that their money would be in safe hands.
	manchesterhistory.net /rochdale/history5.html (897 words)

	Credit Union Philosopy
		The principles are a modified version of the original Rochdale Principles, which were named after the first successful co-op, started in Rochdale, England in the 1840s.
		The CUNA Cooperative Alliances Committee expanded on the seven principles in order to more directly reflect for credit unions’ structure and characteristics, including fields of membership, emphasis on member education, and desire to serve members from all walks of life, including people of modest means.
		These seven principles are founded in the philosophy of cooperation and its central values of equality, equity and mutual self-help.
	www.creditunion.coop /history/cu_philosophy.html (618 words)

	IRC
		The principles of credit union philosophy and operation are grounded in the principles of the Rochdale pioneers.
		In defense of the livelihood and their way of life, some of them joined the Chartist movement, whose members were demanding a secret ballot, universal suffrage and no property requirements for members of Parliament.
		In Rochdale, a group of 28 weavers and artisans turned to cooperation.
	www.cuna.org /irc/archive10_1.html (870 words)

	Euro Coop - Frequently Asked Questions
		From the decisions and practices of the Pioneers, based on the Owenite theories of Co-operation, the Rochdale Principles of Co-operation were formulated.
		Rochdale became a model for the formation of similar co-operative societies throughout the United Kingdom and around the World.
		In other words, thanks to the co-operative principle of "one member, one vote", every member has a role in setting the objectives of his/her consumer co-operative and in turn in its management via their local, regional and national assemblies.
	www.eurocoop.org /faqs/en (1586 words)

	Earth Island Institute: Earth Island Journal - Summer 2001 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		The extent to which they do depends on how closely they adhere to the Rochdale Principles, a set of guidelines that have governed the International Cooperative Alliance for the past 106 years.
		The Rochdale Equitable Pioneers Society existed at a time when people were rioting in the streets over the high prices and poor quality of food.
		A "community principle," added to the Rochdale Principles in 1995, states: "While focusing on member needs, cooperatives work for the sustainable development of their communities through policies accepted by their members."
	www.earthisland.org /eijournal/new_articles.cfm?articleID=144&journalID=46 (505 words)

	Social Anarchism/A Look Inside Japan's Seikatsu Club Consumers' Cooperative
		Six essential principles evolved from the Rochdale experiment which have come to typify cooperatives: (1) open and voluntary membership; (2) democratic administration; (3) not-for-profit status; (4) return of surplus to members; (5) education of the membership; and (6) cooperation among cooperatives.
		In keeping with the fifth Rochdale principle, which advocates member education, many cooperatives feel that knowledge should be widely diffused within the organization rather than remain in the hands of specialists.
		This principle is not widely understood among people in modern capitalistic societies, however, where the general attitude is one of dependency on major corporations to provide both employment and consumer goods, and on the government to provide services and security.
	library.nothingness.org /articles/SA/en/display_printable/247 (6907 words)

	Egyptian Electric Cooperative Association (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		The most famous of the early cooperatives was the Rochdale Cooperative, formed in Rochdale, England in 1844.
		These principles are still the foundation of most cooperatives today.
		The Rochdale cooperative was formed because the members had a need.
	www.egyptianelectric.coop /Coophistory.html (545 words)

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		Organized extensively after the creation of the Rochdale Equitable Pioneers Co-operative Society in 1844, co-operative societies enabled members to buy food, fuel and clothing of a consistently higher quality than before, with the profits distributed as dividends to the members in proportion to their purchases.
		Toad Lane, Rochdale, was the site of the official opening of the Rochdale Equitable Pioneers Co-operative Society on 21 December 1844 (Holyoake 1871, 13), funded by the three pence per week contributions of the 28 founding members and 12 other subscribers since August (Birchall 1994, 43).
		Holyoake then proceeds to discuss the ensuing events in Rochdale, where many workers had savings in the co-operative society (recall the fall of the Rochdale Savings Bank a decade earlier), alluding to their measured withdrawal of accumulated dividends during the cotton famine.
	www.eh.net /Clio/Conferences/ASSA/Jan_96/kiesling.shtml (2808 words)

	OSCA: Oberlin Student Cooperative Association
		The principles which guide modern cooperative organizations including OSCA were formulated in 1844 by a group of textile workers in Rochdale, England who were fed up with the exploitative nature of the market during the British Industrial Revolution.
		They decided to pool their money and open a small retail store which operated on principles which have become the foundation of modern co-ops.
		Regular meetings, education of members and outreach into the community are provided according to the principles and techniques of cooperation, both economic and political.
	osca.wilder.oberlin.edu /about/principles.htm (333 words)

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