Italy has a long and successful tradition of co-operative enterprise. The first co-operatives began in the…
Rochdale Principles
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Show filtersMember economic participation: turning co-operative supporters into co-operative investors
The path to member economic participation, one of the core co-operative principles, never did run smooth.…
Nine ways to work with co-operatives in other countries
Here in New Zealand, some of our co-operatives serve their member owners well through trading internationally,…
Why education is so important for co-operatives
Co-operatives provide education and training for their members, elected representatives, managers and employees so they can…
Where are all the women? Looking back on the Rochdale Pioneers
On the 168th anniversary of the opening of the first Rochdale Pioneers’ shop, Co-operative News talked…
How co-operatives work for women in Africa
In Africa, as elsewhere, inequalities persist between women and men in terms of access to and…
What’s a social co-operative, can it help create a Big Society?
Back in May 2010 Bob Cannell and I were attending a European Conference for worker co-operatives,…
