The Story Of The Cws The Jubilee History Of The Co Operative Wholesale Society Limited 1863 1913

Author : Percy Redfern
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9781528170086
Total Pages : 566 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (7 download)

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Download or read book The Story of the C. W. S written by Percy Redfern and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-09-16 with total page 566 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Story of the C. W. S: The Jubilee History of the Co-Operative Wholesale Society Limited, 1863-1913 The Story of the c.w.s. Presupposes a general acquaintance with the co-operative store movement in England and Wales. The book may find readers, however, who have not had occasion to discover what economic and social principle that movement actually is built upon, and a few words of introduction therefore may be useful. It is in some respects unfortunate that co-operators have been obliged to adopt current terms like profit and dividend, for the use of these words has led to much misconception. For example, the modern store movement and the Wholesale Society freely are charged with departing from the principles of the Rochdale Pioneers, when to the student it is clear that the history of both consists in one logical, persistent, almost automatic working out of those principles. The Pioneers lived in a world where men on one hand were hidden to love their neighbours as themselves, and on the other were led in all economic matters to put self-interest first. The contradiction was a little more than they could endure; hence, while they also sought to advance themselves, it was with the dilierence of taking their neighbours along with them. This principle of mutual effort was not new; it belonged also to Owenite socialism, to trade unionism, to the friendly societies, and to every effort, social, educational, or religious, in which the good of one was the good of all. They applied it to trade and the consumer, by improving upon existing forms of mutual shopkeeping. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.