Co-operation and the Future of Industry

Leonard S. Woolf

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2017
• Topic: Business
• eBook ISBN:
  9781351358644
• Subtopic: Business General
• Index: Business

In this book, originally published in 1918, the Leonard S. Woolf explores the development of the Co-operative Movement into a democratic industrial system. This title combines a description of the movement as it was, with a picture of the ways in which the author felt it would become if it followed out and developed its principles and ideals. This title will be of interest to students of economic history and employee ownership.

INDEX

Agriculture, 104, 105

Amalgamated Union of Co-operative Employees (A.U.C.E.), 67, 70, 82

Conciliation Boards, 82–6

Membership of, 81

Policy of, 81, 82

American Civil War, effect of, on Co-operative Movement, 34

Arbitration (Industrial), see Conciliation

Banking (Co-operative), 93

Belgium, Co-operation and Socialists, 108

Bolton Co-operative Society, 66

Bonus on wages, 89–92

Brighton Co-operative Society, 25

Bureaucracy—

in Co-operative Movement, 50, 57

in C.W.S., 59

Capital—

and Labour, 81

in Co-operative Movement, 38–46

Capitalist system, 7–11

Classes, psychology of, 98, 99

Communities (Owenite), 19–22

Conciliation (Industrial)—

Arbitration, 82, 83

by Joint Committee, 82

Conciliation Boards, 82–6, 87

Conscription (Industrial), 126–7, 137

Consumers, relation to producers, 30 ff., 71, 76–8, 88, 89

Co-operation, consumers’ and producers’, 13, 30 ff.

Co-operative Commonwealth, 75, 95, 102, 125–7, 133–4

Co-operative Movement—

Agriculture under, 104, 105

and capital, 38–48

and democracy, 11, Chapter III

and employees, 54 ff., Chapter IV

and foreign trade, 105–7

and political action, 127–34

and prices, III and “profits,” 43–8

and R. Owen, 22–3

and Socialism, 107–11

and taxation, 112

and the State, 109–17

Average income in, 97, 102

Class of members in, 12, 96 ff.

Definition of, 13

Distribution of members, 98

Growth of, 96

Nature of Societies in, 13

Number of members, 7, 96

Number of Societies, 7

Organization of, 13–16

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Table of contents

• Cover
• Half Title
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Preface
• Table of Contents
• I. Introduction
• II. The Roots of the Movement
• III. A Democratic System of Industry
• IV. Labour and the Movement
• V. Problems of Progress
• VI. Co-Operators and Political Action
• Index