Introduction : Blessed are the cheese makers? Catholic liberation, social capital, women, and neoliberalism in contemporary Ecuador -- Why Catholic women make cheese -- Reproducing women : gendered social capital in local contexts -- Marketing the domestic church -- Las Juanes : charismatic...

What are co-operatives? -- The origins of the idea and the rochdale pioneers: before 1844 -- The early years and the rise of co-operative wholesaling: 1844-1864 -- Diversification, internationalization and the formation of the international co-operative alliance: 1864-1914 -- The challenges of...

Das Diskussionspapier reflektiert die sozio-ökonomische Macht erneuerbarer Energieproduktions-Genossenschaften für eine Energiewende in Deutschland. Energiegenossenschaften sind durch ihr starkes Wachstum seit dem Jahr 2006, ihre Beteiligung an lokalen Energieprojekten, sowie ihrem...

"The Cooperative Business Movement, 1950 to the Present The United Nations declared 2012 the year of cooperatives, emphasizing that there is an alternative to privately owned firms. While greed and mismanagement have caused world financial and economic crises, co-ops offer another type of...

An introduction to theoretical issues / Maurizio Atzeni -- Factory occupation, worker cooperatives and alternative production : lessons from Britain in the 1970s / Alan Tuckman -- Going underground : worker ownership and control at Tower Colliery / Russell Smith, Len Arthur, Molly Scott Cato and...

By way of presenting an ahistorical fictitious story, this paper is ment to illustrate that: - in contrast to conventional wisdom, trade unions, in their symbiosis with capitalist firms, may further rather than impede price-mediated self-regulation in the labour market via their involvement in...