Case Studies of Consumers' Cooperatives

Successful Cooperatives Started by Finnish Groups in the United States Studied in Relation to Their Social and Economic Environment

H. Haines Turner

• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Year: 2019
• Print ISBN:
  9780231905640
• Edition: 1
• eBook ISBN:
  9780231879378
• Topic: Business
• Subtopic: Corporate Governance
• Index: Business

Table of contents

• Preface
• Contents
• 1. Introduction. A Note on the Order of Reading
• Part I. Maynard, Massachusetts
• 2. Cooperative Accomplishments in Maynard
• 3. A Description of the Community
• 4. The Development of Cooperatives
• 5. Social Aspects of the United Cooperative Society’s Growth
• 6. An Economic Appraisal of the United Cooperative Society
• 7. Direction and Personnel
• 8. Competition with Private Business for Patronage
• 9. The Case of Maynard, Massachusetts; Conclusions
• Part II. Cooperatives in the Lake Superior Region and Their Cooperative Wholesale
• 10. A Survey of Consumers’ Cooperatives in the Lake Superior Region
• 11. The Environment in Which They Developed
• 12. The Development of Consumers’ Cooperatives – Why, When, Where
• 13. The Cooperative Wholesale
• 14. The Local Cooperative Societies During the 1920’S
• 15. Social and Political Barriers to Cooperation
• 16. The Cooperatives as an Independent Movement – The Depression to Date
• 17. An Economic Appraisal of the Central Cooperative Wholesale Group
• 18. The Direction and Personnel of the Cooperatives
• 19. Factors Affecting Cooperative Growth
• Part III. Conclusions
• 20. Cooperative Contributions and Opportunities in the United States
• Appendices
• Index