Mainstreaming co-operation : an alternative for the twenty-first century? / edited by Anthony Webster, Linda Shaw, Rachael Vorberg-Rugh.

1. Introduction -- Anthony Webster, Linda Shaw and Rachael Vorberg-Rugh 2. Mainstreaming co-operatives after the global financial crisis -- Claudia Sanchez Bajo and Bruno Roelants 3. Our agencies: persuasion and the value of a concept to mainstreaming co-operation -- Philip Grant 4. G.J. Holyoake (1807-1906): a resource for a journey of hope? -- Stephen Yeo 5. History, citizenship and co-operative education, c. 1895-1930 -- Keith Vernon 6. 'The unit of the co-operative movement ... is a woman': gender and the development of the co-operative business model in Britain -- Rachael Vorberg-Rugh 7. A continuing challenge: women and leadership in co-operatives -- Barbara Rawlings and Linda Shaw 8. The wasted years? The Co-operative Party during the 1930s -- Angela Whitecross 9. New models of ownership and governance -- Cliff Mills and Ruth Yeoman 10. Co-operatives in health care: global prospects for the development of co-operatives as instruments of consumer-centred health care -- Vern Hughes 11. Rising numbers of architectural co-operatives in an uncertain construction economy -- Stephen McCusker 12. Co-operatives and climate protection: housing co-operatives in Germany -- Carolin Schröder and Heike Walk 13. The co-operative identity: good for poverty reduction? -- Rowshan Hannan 14. What do we really know about workers' co-operatives? -- Virginie Pérotin 15. The impact of the co-operative ethos on the creation of shared value: a case study of Lincolnshire Co-operative Society -- Phil Considine and Martin Hingley 16. Learning to swim against the tide: crises and co-operative credibility -- some international and historical examples -- Anthony Webster, Linda Shaw, Rachael Vorberg-Rugh, John F. Wilson and Ian Snaith Index.

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This collection considers the transformation that has taken place over the last 30 years in the global position of co-operative and mutual business models, from the prevailing view of the investor-led model in the 1980s to the aftermath of the 2008 financial crisis and revival of the co-operative movement.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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