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Author : C. Brice Ratchford
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 4 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (437 download)
Download or read book Introduction to Consumer Food Cooperatives written by C. Brice Ratchford and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 4 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Anne Meis Knupfer
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 0801467705
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (14 download)
Download or read book Food Co-ops in America written by Anne Meis Knupfer and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2013-06-15 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In recent years, American shoppers have become more conscious of their food choices and have increasingly turned to CSAs, farmers' markets, organic foods in supermarkets, and to joining and forming new food co-ops. In fact, food co-ops have been a viable food source, as well as a means of collective and democratic ownership, for nearly 180 years.In Food Co-ops in America, Anne Meis Knupfer examines the economic and democratic ideals of food cooperatives. She shows readers what the histories of food co-ops can tell us about our rights as consumers, how we can practice democracy and community, and how we might do business differently. In the first history of food co-ops in the United States, Knupfer draws on newsletters, correspondence, newspaper coverage, and board meeting minutes, as well as visits to food co-ops around the country, where she listened to managers, board members, workers, and members.What possibilities for change—be they economic, political, environmental or social—might food co-ops offer to their members, communities, and the globalized world? Food co-ops have long advocated for consumer legislation, accurate product labeling, and environmental protection. Food co-ops have many constituents—members, workers, board members, local and even global producers—making the process of collective decision-making complex and often difficult. Even so, food co-ops offer us a viable alternative to corporate capitalism. In recent years, committed co-ops have expanded their social vision to improve access to healthy food for all by helping to establish food co-ops in poorer communities.
Author : Jon Steinman
Publisher : New Society Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1550927000
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (59 download)
Download or read book Grocery Story written by Jon Steinman and published by New Society Publishers. This book was released on 2019-05-07 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hungry for change? Put the power of food co-ops on your plate and grow your local food economy. Food has become ground-zero in our efforts to increase awareness of how our choices impact the world. Yet while we have begun to transform our communities and dinner plates, the most authoritative strand of the food web has received surprisingly little attention: the grocery store—the epicenter of our food-gathering ritual. Through penetrating analysis and inspiring stories and examples of American and Canadian food co-ops, Grocery Story makes a compelling case for the transformation of the grocery store aisles as the emerging frontier in the local and good food movements. Author Jon Steinman: Deconstructs the food retail sector and the shadows cast by corporate giants Makes the case for food co-ops as an alternative Shows how co-ops spur the creation of local food-based economies and enhance low-income food access. Grocery Story is for everyone who eats. Whether you strive to eat more local and sustainable food, or are in support of community economic development, Grocery Story will leave you hungry to join the food co-op movement in your own community.
Author : Alicia A Franken
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Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (135 download)
Download or read book Assessing Consumer Perceptions of Food Cooperatives in the U.S. in Order to Improve Food Cooperatives' Marketing Strategies written by Alicia A Franken and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Dating back to the early 1800s, cooperatives are organizations that are democratically owned and controlled by their members. They exist in all sectors of the economy, such as in agriculture, manufacturing, financial services, housing, healthcare, and utilities ("What is a Coop?" n.d.). As alternatives to investor-owned corporations, co-ops are locally owned by individuals in their community and serve the needs of their members rather than providing profit to outside investors (Hazen, 2010). The retail food cooperatives that today provide natural, organic, and local foods to consumers across the country are consumer cooperatives and are owned by their members who shop in the store (Hazen, 2010). This iteration of the retail food cooperative sprang up during the 1960s and 1970s, in response to the environmental, political, and social concerns of the counterculture movement (Knupfer, 2013). Due to the increased consumer interest in organic and natural foods, today's food co-ops face competition from supermarkets, discount stores, and national chains such as Whole Foods Market and Trader Joe's, which now carry many of the products in which co-ops specialize (Haedicke, 2014). This competition puts the survival of co-ops in jeopardy, calling for greater insight into this phenomenon to keep food co-ops afloat. Food co-ops play a vital role in their local communities and economies - in a way that mainstream retailers selling organic foods cannot. To remain viable, it is therefore important for food co-ops to understand the current consumer perceptions in order to develop better marketing techniques that can help keep existing shoppers and engage new ones. ..." -- from introduction.
Author : Ronald Cotterill
Publisher : Vero Media Incorporated
ISBN 13 : 9780813422152
Total Pages : 378 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (221 download)
Download or read book Consumer Food Cooperatives written by Ronald Cotterill and published by Vero Media Incorporated. This book was released on 1982-01-01 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Ann Adle Hoyt
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book An Analysis of a Consumer Food Buying Cooperative written by Ann Adle Hoyt and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Craig Cox
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780813521022
Total Pages : 180 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (21 download)
Download or read book Storefront Revolution written by Craig Cox and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 1994 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the 1960s, the cooperative networks of food stores, restaurants, bakeries, bookstores, and housing alternatives were part counterculture, part social experiment, part economic utopia, and part revolutionary political statement. The co-ops gave activists a place where they could both express themselves and accomplish at least some small-scale changes. By the mid-1970s, dozens of food co-ops and other consumer- and work-owned enterprises were operating throughout the Twin Cities, and an alternative economic network - with a People's Warehouse at its hub - was beginning to transform the economic landscape of the metropolitan Minneapolis-St. Paul area. However, these co-op activists could not always agree among themselves on their goals. Craig Cox, a journalist who was active in the co-op movement, here provides the first book to look at food co-ops during the 1960s and 1970s. He presents a dramatic story of hope and conflict within the Minneapolis network, one of the largest co-op structures in the country. His "view from the front" of the "Co-op War" that ensued between those who wanted personal liberation through the movement and those who wanted a working-class revolution challenges us to re-thing possiblities for social and political change. Cox provides not a cynical portrait of sixties idealism, but a moving insight into an era when anything seemed possible.
Author : William C. Ronco
Publisher : Beacon Press (MA)
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Food Co-ops written by William C. Ronco and published by Beacon Press (MA). This book was released on 1974 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Abstract: A food co-op is a group of individuals and families which purchases food in bulk from a wholesaler, avoiding middle-man markup, and distributes to its members. The food co-op is an economical, political and qualitative alternative to food supermarket shopping. It is a response to inflationary prices. The food co-op popularity implies participants' needs for autonomy and more control over the forces that shape their lives. History of food co-ops from initial organizational meetings in Concord, Massachusetts to comparisons of 1930's and 1970's co-ops is presented. Chapters describe potential food savings and time commitments involved; organizational possibilities, growth and change over time; space, bookkeeping, financing and organizational needs; wholesale buying techniques; political ramifications. Appendices list wholesalers, national co-ops and co-op newsletters.
Author : Craig B. Upright
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
ISBN 13 : 1452963142
Total Pages : 213 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (529 download)
Download or read book Grocery Activism written by Craig B. Upright and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 2020-04-07 with total page 213 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A key period in the history of food cooperatives that continues to influence how we purchase organic food today Our notions of food co-ops generally don’t include images of baseball bat–wielding activists in the aisles. But in May 1975, this was the scene as a Marxist group known as the Co-op Organization took over the People’s Warehouse, a distribution center for more than a dozen small cooperative grocery stores in the Minneapolis area. The activist group’s goal: to curtail the sale of organic food. The People’s Warehouse quickly became one of the principal fronts in the political and social battle that Craig Upright explores in Grocery Activism. The story of the fraught relationship of new-wave cooperative grocery stores to the organic food industry, this book is an instructive case study in the history of activists intervening in capitalist markets to promote social change. Focusing on Minnesota, a state with both a long history of cooperative enterprise and the largest number of surviving independent cooperative stores, Grocery Activism looks back to the 1970s, when the mission of these organizations shifted from political activism to the promotion of natural and organic foods. Why, Upright asks, did two movements—promoting cooperative enterprise and sustainable agriculture—come together at this juncture? He analyzes the nexus of social movements and economic sociology, examining how new-wave cooperatives have pursued social change by imbuing products they sell with social values. Rather than trying to explain the success or failure of any individual cooperative, his work shows how members of this fraternity of organizations supported one another in their mutual quest to maintain fiscal solvency, promote better food-purchasing habits, support sustainable agricultural practices, and extol the virtues of cooperative organizing. A foundational chapter in the history of organic food, Grocery Activism clarifies the critical importance of this period in transforming the politics and economics of the grocery store in America.
Author : S Reid Editor
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781543169775
Total Pages : 116 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (697 download)
Download or read book The Fci Guide to Starting a Food Co-op written by S Reid Editor and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2017-01-16 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Food Co-ops are grocery stores that are owned and controlled by the people who shop in them. Co-ops' first priority is to meet the needs of those shoppers rather than maximize outside investors' return. Interested in starting a food co-op in your community? Food Co-op Initiative has assembled this comprehensive overview of the development process with checklists, templates and extensive referrals to other sources of support. This is the "must have" guide for new food co-op organizers.
Author : Diane G. Hernandez
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 180 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (616 download)
Download or read book Consumer Food Cooperatives in Vermont written by Diane G. Hernandez and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 98 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (29 download)
Download or read book Consumer's Cooperation written by and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Michigan State University. Department of Agricultural Economics
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 5 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (632 download)
Download or read book Consumer Food Cooperatives in Michigan written by Michigan State University. Department of Agricultural Economics and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 5 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Neva Jean Wilmore Dickens
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 60 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (1 download)
Download or read book Consumers' Food Cooperatives written by Neva Jean Wilmore Dickens and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Consumer distribution corporation
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 184 pages
Book Rating : 4.E/5 ( download)
Download or read book Manager's Manual for Consumer Cooperative Food Stores written by Consumer distribution corporation and published by . This book was released on 1940 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004336559
Total Pages : 877 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (43 download)
Download or read book A Global History of Consumer Co-operation since 1850 written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2017-07-03 with total page 877 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With contributions from over 30 scholars, A Global History of Consumer Co-operation surveys the origins and development of the consumer co-operative movement from the mid-nineteenth century until the present day. The contributions, covering the history of co-operation in different national contexts in Europe, the Americas, Asia and Australasia, illustrate the wide variety of forms that consumer co-operatives have taken; the different political, economic and social contexts in which they have operated; the ideological influences on their development; and the reasons for their expansion and decline at different times. The book also explores the connections between co-operatives in different parts of the world, challenging assumptions that the story of global co-operation can be traced exclusively to the 1844 Rochdale Co-operative Society. Contributors are: Amélie Artis, Nikola Balnave, Patrizia Battilani, Johann Brazda, Susan Fitzpatrick-Behrens, María Eugenia Castelao Caruana, Kay-Wah Chan, Bernard Degen, Danièle Demoustier, Espen Ekberg, Dulce Freire, Katarina Friberg, Mary Hilson, Mary Ip, Florian Jagschitz, Pernilla Jonsson, Kim Hyung-mi, Akira Kurimoto, Simon Lambersens, Catherine C LeGrand, Ian MacPherson, Francisco José Medina-Albaladejo, Alain Mélo, Jessica Gordon Nembhard, Silke Neunsinger, Greg Patmore, Joana Dias Pereira, Michael Prinz, Siegfried Rom, Robert Schediwy, Corrado Secchi, Geert Van Goethem, Griselda Verbeke, Rachael Vorberg-Rugh, Mirta Vuotto, Anthony Webster and John Wilson.
Author : Michael Peter Nagy
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Total Pages : 702 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (273 download)
Download or read book From the Ground Up written by Michael Peter Nagy and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 702 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
