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Insight: Co-operatives: The pioneers live on
By Mathew Little, Third Sector, 5 July 2006
The alternative to both the state and the market created by a group of 19th-century Rochdale mill workers is currently very much in vogue. Mathew Little reports on the renaissance of the co-operative movement.
Co-operation in the UK began as an alternative to charity. When Lancashire mill workers were forced back to work following a strike, they declined the obvious option of appealing for charitable assistance. Instead they set up their own 'co-operative' food store. The shop, which opened in Rochdale in 1844, initially...
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