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Collective Courage

Author : Jessica Gordon Nembhard
Publisher : Penn State Press
ISBN 13 : 0271064269
Total Pages : 325 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (71 download)

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Download or read book Collective Courage written by Jessica Gordon Nembhard and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2015-06-13 with total page 325 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Collective Courage, Jessica Gordon Nembhard chronicles African American cooperative business ownership and its place in the movements for Black civil rights and economic equality. Not since W. E. B. Du Bois’s 1907 Economic Co-operation Among Negro Americans has there been a full-length, nationwide study of African American cooperatives. Collective Courage extends that story into the twenty-first century. Many of the players are well known in the history of the African American experience: Du Bois, A. Philip Randolph and the Ladies' Auxiliary to the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters, Nannie Helen Burroughs, Fannie Lou Hamer, Ella Jo Baker, George Schuyler and the Young Negroes’ Co-operative League, the Nation of Islam, and the Black Panther Party. Adding the cooperative movement to Black history results in a retelling of the African American experience, with an increased understanding of African American collective economic agency and grassroots economic organizing. To tell the story, Gordon Nembhard uses a variety of newspapers, period magazines, and journals; co-ops’ articles of incorporation, minutes from annual meetings, newsletters, budgets, and income statements; and scholarly books, memoirs, and biographies. These sources reveal the achievements and challenges of Black co-ops, collective economic action, and social entrepreneurship. Gordon Nembhard finds that African Americans, as well as other people of color and low-income people, have benefitted greatly from cooperative ownership and democratic economic participation throughout the nation’s history.

Economic Growth Through Cooperative Effort

Author : Massachusetts. Department of Commerce and Development
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 16 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (747 download)

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Download or read book Economic Growth Through Cooperative Effort written by Massachusetts. Department of Commerce and Development and published by . This book was released on 1975* with total page 16 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Cooperatives and Community Development

Author : Vanna Gonzales
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317850580
Total Pages : 185 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (178 download)

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Download or read book Cooperatives and Community Development written by Vanna Gonzales and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-01-21 with total page 185 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In celebration of cooperatives’ contributions to community development processes and outcomes worldwide, the United Nations designated 2012 as the Year of the Cooperative. Today, as in the past, cooperatives have proved effective in bringing people and organizations together to accomplish a broad array of goals related to fostering social and economic innovation, protecting communities against poor living and working conditions, and promoting a better quality of life. Analytically, as both a movement and as a business model, cooperatives hold much potential for generating the types of synergies, collaboration, and productive and social processes that enable community development to thrive in a variety of local, regional and global contexts. This collection of articles chronicles new developments in the ways in which cooperatives are used in a diverse array of community contexts. They offer insight as to what these changes mean, both empirically and theoretically, for community development in the decades to come. This book is a compilation of articles published in the journal Community Development.

Cooperatives, Grassroots Development, and Social Change

Author : Marcela Vásquez-Léon
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
ISBN 13 : 0816536295
Total Pages : 265 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (165 download)

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Download or read book Cooperatives, Grassroots Development, and Social Change written by Marcela Vásquez-Léon and published by University of Arizona Press. This book was released on 2017-03-14 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cooperatives, Grassroots Development, and Social Change presents examples from Paraguay, Brazil, and Colombia, examining what is necessary for smallholder agricultural cooperatives to support holistic community-based development in peasant communities. Reporting on successes and failures of these cooperative efforts, the contributors offer analyses and strategies for supporting collective grassroots interests. Illustrating how poverty and inequality affect rural people, they reveal how cooperative organizations can support grassroots development strategies while negotiating local contexts of inequality amid the broader context of international markets and global competition. The contributors explain the key desirable goals from cooperative efforts among smallholder producers. They are to provide access to more secure livelihoods, expand control over basic resources and commodity chains, improve quality of life in rural areas, support community infrastructure, and offer social spaces wherein small farmers can engage politically in transforming their own communities. The stories in Cooperatives, Grassroots Development, and Social Change reveal immense opportunities and challenges. Although cooperatives have often been framed as alternatives to the global capitalist system, they are neither a panacea nor the hegemonic extension of neoliberal capitalism. Through one of the most thorough cross-country comparisons of cooperatives to date, this volume shows the unfiltered reality of cooperative development in highly stratified societies, with case studies selected specifically because they offer important lessons regarding struggles and strategies for adapting to a changing social, economic, and natural environment. Contributors: Luis Barros Brian J. Burke Charles Cox Luis Alberto Cuéllar Gómez Miguel Ricardo Dávila Ladrón de Guevara Elisa Echagüe Timothy J. Finan Andrés González Aguilera Sonia Carolina López Cerón Joana Laura Marinho Nogueira João Nicédio Alves Nogueira Jessica Piekielek María Isabel Ramírez Anaya Rodrigo F. Rentería-Valencia Lilliana Andrea Ruiz Marín Marcela Vásquez-León

Rural Cooperation

Author : F. F. Lyimo
Publisher : African Books Collective
ISBN 13 : 998708155X
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (87 download)

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Download or read book Rural Cooperation written by F. F. Lyimo and published by African Books Collective. This book was released on 2012 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'No person, no country in the world, irrespective of its stage of development, is fully self-sufficient. Cooperation brings together peoples and nations and facilitates peaceful co-existence.' So begins Rural Cooperation In The Cooperative Movement In Tanzania, what will undoubtedly be seen as a seminal work in the field. The author has lectured a course on Rural Cooperation in Tanzania at the University of Dar es Salaam for seven consecutive years, but lack of appropriate books with adequate coverage of the course content obliged him to conduct extensive research on cooperation and cooperatives. The resulting book covers the entire field and addresses the subject by providing a foundation on which wider study can be based. It is intended to make its readers aware of the strategies and challenges of cooperation and has a wider relevance, as it will be useful to policy makers in the cooperative sector, which is a significant part of the private sector in Tanzania, and indeed in most African countries. By June 2008, there were 2614 agricultural marketing cooperative societies, 4780 savings and credits cooperative societies, 71 livestock cooperative societies, 129 fishing cooperative societies, 11 housing cooperative societies, 3 mining cooperative societies, 185 industrial cooperative societies, 98 water irrigation cooperative societies, 4 transport cooperative societies, 103 consumer cooperative societies, and 553 service and other cooperative societies; perfectly illustrative of the movement's scope and the need to pay it careful attention. The topics included make it appropriate for use in Sociology, Rural Development, Marketing, Development Studies and studies in other specialties in the Social Sciences. From an exploration of the cooperative movement's various international iterations to a perspicacious survey of the history of cooperatives in Tanzania, Dr. Lyimo highlights the issues facing farmers and business people and illustrates the way in which cooperative effort- enterprises that put people, and not capital, at the center of their business- can not only improve members' economic power in bargaining for better marketing conditions and prices, but also to increase employment opportunities, thereby improving the standard of living for a large number of people. In these times of penury and economic disenfranchisement, this book not only fills the information gap, but provides, in the ultimate chapters, 'Procedures for Organizing a Cooperative Society', and 'Managing Rural Cooperative Societies', the basic principles and advice for those considering the cooperative model as the best means of improving their economic viability.

The Cooperative Approach in Rural Development

Author : Rita Mae Kelly
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 46 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Cooperative Approach in Rural Development written by Rita Mae Kelly and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 46 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Building a Platform for Economic Democracy

Author : Nicholas Gourlay Iuviene
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 90 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (67 download)

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Download or read book Building a Platform for Economic Democracy written by Nicholas Gourlay Iuviene and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 90 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cooperative development efforts over the last 25 years have been largely inspired by, and modeled on, the Mondragon experience in the Basque region of Spain. None of these efforts has achieved nearly the success of Mondragon, which stabilized and dramatically developed a regional economy through the creation and growth of a diverse set of industrial worker and supportive secondary cooperatives. U.S. efforts in cooperative development have typically replicated some aspects of the Mondragon model but ignored others. This thesis argues that successful cooperative development requires a more complete understanding of the critical components of the Mondragon model. Drawing on the Mondragon case and on the emergent model from the Evergreen Initiative in Cleveland, I present a cooperative economic development framework made up of three components: defining a geographic area, developing a cooperative network, and designing policies based on an endogenous, import replacing economic development model. Using this framework, I then offer an initial cooperative economic development strategy for the Bronx targeting recommendations to both governmental and non-governmental organizations.

State, Cooperatives and Development in Africa

Author : Hans Holmén
Publisher : Nordic Africa Institute
ISBN 13 : 9789171063007
Total Pages : 52 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (63 download)

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Download or read book State, Cooperatives and Development in Africa written by Hans Holmén and published by Nordic Africa Institute. This book was released on 1990 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The White House Conference on Balanced National Growth & Economic Development: Workshop reports

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 96 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (319 download)

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Download or read book The White House Conference on Balanced National Growth & Economic Development: Workshop reports written by and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Transformation of the Informal Sector

Author : Sylvester J. Ouma
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 116 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (38 download)

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Download or read book The Transformation of the Informal Sector written by Sylvester J. Ouma and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Cooperatives, Democratic Institutions for Economic and Social Development

Author : United States. Agency for International Development. Special Advisory Committee on Cooperatives
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 96 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (89 download)

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Download or read book Cooperatives, Democratic Institutions for Economic and Social Development written by United States. Agency for International Development. Special Advisory Committee on Cooperatives and published by . This book was released on 1961 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Cooperative Efforts of Libraries

Author : Rita Pellen
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317951727
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (179 download)

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Download or read book Cooperative Efforts of Libraries written by Rita Pellen and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-10-31 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explore a wide variety of cooperative initiatives—at regional, statewide, and international levels! This book examines a wide variety of cooperative efforts and consortia in libraries, both geographically and in terms of such activities as digitization and cooperative reference services. You'll learn how libraries are cooperating regionally, on the statewide level, and internationally to provide better service to all kinds of users. Cooperative Efforts of Libraries explores aspects of cooperation that include remote storage, virtual reference service, collection development, staff training and instruction, preservation, interlibrary loan, and international cooperation in Latin America and the Caribbean. From the editors: “Cooperation used to mean primarily cataloging via OCLC, interlibrary loan, and perhaps mutual borrowing privileges, but economics and technology are combining to broaden the playing field considerably. This collection reflects this diversity.” Part one of Cooperative Efforts of Libraries highlights cooperation in regional and statewide activity. You'll learn about: Metro, a multitype cooperative designed to coordinate the implementation of virtual reference among libraries in New York City cooperation between remote, rural, and isolated libraries in the Northern Great Plains and Rocky Mountain West regions, including the creation of the Online Dakota Information Network (ODIN) and similar organizations a Virtual Library of Virginia project in which the highly specialized skills of librarians were used to enhance vendor-supplied MARC records for a much more accessible full-text database the efforts of each university within the state system in Florida to contribute digitized versions of rare and specialized Floridiana to a joint electronic collection which is available to everyone in the state a centrally funded project to support the information literacy efforts of librarians at each campus of the California State University System and make all of them available at the other campus libraries a joint collection development project within the state universities and community and technical colleges of Minnesota the successful lobbying effort which brought them a $3 million annual supplement to cooperatively redress past underfunding for collections the history of resource sharing in Louisiana, Illinois, and Texas—detailed and extensive analyses Part two of Cooperative Efforts of Libraries presents a sampling of the wide variety of cooperative efforts that make libraries so unusual among institutions and librarians so unusual among professionals. In this section, the President of the Center for Research Libraries discusses the increasing cost and physical constraints that make it difficult for hundreds of libraries to store and preserve print copies of the same research materials. This section also examines: a collaborative digital reference project among three small liberal arts college libraries in New England the history of cooperative collection development among three Pennsylvania college libraries the University of Kansas Libraries' efforts to establish cooperative education programs to microfilm brittle books and create microform masters of embrittled volumes—which are then made available for sale to other libraries an American university's offer of interlibrary access to the students and faculty of an Armenian university where resources are severely limited the challenges of providing interlibrary loan in Latin America the planning of an international summit cosponsored by the Southeast Florida Library Information Network, a regional multitype cooperative in South Florida, and IFLA, designed to lay the groundwork for further cooperative efforts between U.S. libraries and libraries in Latin America and the Caribbean

Regional Long Waves, Uneven Growth, and the Cooperative Alternative

Author : Douglas E. Booth
Publisher : Praeger
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 140 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Regional Long Waves, Uneven Growth, and the Cooperative Alternative written by Douglas E. Booth and published by Praeger. This book was released on 1987-04-15 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book challenges the prevailing view that regional economic decline is caused by unionization and can be avoided through tax cuts. Respected economist Douglas Booth suggests the establishment of cooperative financial institutions in order to shift corporate responsibility from stockholders to employees. Policymakers, those interested in employee ownership, unionists, and those interested in the nation's economic problems in general will find the book provocative and timely.

Freedom Farmers

Author : Monica M. White
Publisher : UNC Press Books
ISBN 13 : 1469643707
Total Pages : 209 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (696 download)

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Download or read book Freedom Farmers written by Monica M. White and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2018-11-06 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In May 1967, internationally renowned activist Fannie Lou Hamer purchased forty acres of land in the Mississippi Delta, launching the Freedom Farms Cooperative (FFC). A community-based rural and economic development project, FFC would grow to over 600 acres, offering a means for local sharecroppers, tenant farmers, and domestic workers to pursue community wellness, self-reliance, and political resistance. Life on the cooperative farm presented an alternative to the second wave of northern migration by African Americans--an opportunity to stay in the South, live off the land, and create a healthy community based upon building an alternative food system as a cooperative and collective effort. Freedom Farmers expands the historical narrative of the black freedom struggle to embrace the work, roles, and contributions of southern Black farmers and the organizations they formed. Whereas existing scholarship generally views agriculture as a site of oppression and exploitation of black people, this book reveals agriculture as a site of resistance and provides a historical foundation that adds meaning and context to current conversations around the resurgence of food justice/sovereignty movements in urban spaces like Detroit, Chicago, Milwaukee, New York City, and New Orleans.

The Work that Sustains Us

Author : Carol Ellen Fraser
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 510 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (11 download)

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Download or read book The Work that Sustains Us written by Carol Ellen Fraser and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 510 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the United States, city governments have long attempted to influence economic activity within their jurisdictions. Often this has manifested as a competitive effort to attract businesses from other cities. Such tactics are controversial; over time many citizens have fought this tendency, seeking instead to develop institutions and practices that provide direct and tangible benefits to existing residents, especially underprivileged ones. More recently, the threats of climate change and environmental unsustainability have broadened the conversation about the meaning of localized economies and municipal development. In this thesis I examine a new phenomenon - cities developing worker cooperative businesses - within the context of these competing sets of municipal economic development practices. I investigate the hypothesis that municipal support for worker cooperatives indicates a shift in how cities are pursuing and discussing economic development. Specifically, this shift may be in response to the increased prevalence and acceptance of sustainability within urban planning policy in general. The first part of this thesis provides context for understanding the current American municipal economic development landscape. I first relate the history of worker cooperatives in the United States, and government support for their development. Then I locate five “frames” or common ways of understanding how cities focus their economic development efforts. These frames illuminate patterns of discourse - ways people talk - about the scale and purpose of a city’s economic development policy, as well as the mechanisms to do so, and how success is measured. Then, in the second part of this thesis I reconstruct how nine cities have started to support worker cooperatives, and the vocabulary used by all actors involved in these events. Driven by the question, How do public and private actors frame the relationship between economic development and worker cooperatives? I seek to understand what might this framing suggest about the motivations city governments have in supporting worker cooperative development? I answer these questions by analyzing recorded documentation on city’s actions - resolutions, public comment, and staff reports - as well as semi-structured interviews for two select cities. Reflecting on the discourse in each city, and the mosaic of case studies as a whole, I go on to argue in the concluding chapters that worker cooperative development does represent a shift in economic development practice, but a small and still incohesive one. On the one hand, government actors portray worker cooperatives as just another form of (capitalistic) business, with the capacity to create high-quality, well-paying jobs, and increase the city’s tax revenue and economic activity. These are hallmarks of traditional and community economic development ways of thinking that do not incorporate the environmental consequences of economic activity. On the other hand, governments frame their support for worker cooperatives in light of the way cooperatives have the potential to further support sustainable activity in areas such as food, waste, and social relations. Significantly, worker cooperatives are seen as inherently tied to place, both geographically and socially, an important characteristic of many visions of sustainability. While these case studies do not indicate a unified movement amongst cities pursuing this form of economic development, I offer in my conclusion some pragmatic insights for activists and scholars seeking to understand or help implement these tactics in their own city

Economic Theory of Cooperation

Author : Ivan Vasiy Emelianoff
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 310 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)

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Download or read book Economic Theory of Cooperation written by Ivan Vasiy Emelianoff and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Agricultural Cooperatives

Author : Glynn McBride
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 1468468820
Total Pages : 429 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (684 download)

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Download or read book Agricultural Cooperatives written by Glynn McBride and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 429 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The genesis of this book dates back a number of years to an annual meeting of the American Institute of Cooperation. Cooperative leaders at that meeting openly expressed their feelings that they would like a much stronger commitment on the part of our land grant universities in particular and other educational institutions in general to creating a greater understanding of cooperatives and their role in our economy. Since I was in agreement with this position, the course in general group action which I was teaching was changed to emphasize the role of agricultural cooperatives. The need for a textbook designed to help in this emphasis became apparent. This book is the culmination of an effort to meet that need. This book has been prepared with the student and instructor in mind. It is based upon experience gained from many years of interaction with students in a classroom setting, in discussions with them after class hours, and after they had finished their degree requirements and had taken positions in jndustry, government, or elsewhere. While objectives of the book have remained relatively unchanged over time, the sub stance and format as means of meeting those objectives have changed from time to time as a result of these contacts and discussions. The input xiv Preface xv of students over the years as reflected in this product is gratefully acknowledged.