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The Co-operative Group has 22 independent consumer co-operatives as corporate members or customer owners, including: Central England Co-operative. Channel Islands Co-operative Society. Chelmsford Star Co-operative Society. East of England Co-operative Society. Heart of England Co-operative Society.
The development of mutual organizations and cooperatives in the United States has a history spanning from the 18th century to the present day, reflecting the evolution of collective economic and social efforts. The 18th century marked the beginning with the establishment of the earliest mutual organization, in the British North American ...
An agricultural cooperative, also known as a farmers' co-op, is a producer cooperative in which farmers pool their resources in certain areas of activities. A broad typology of agricultural cooperatives distinguishes between agricultural service cooperatives, which provide various services to their individually-farming members, and agricultural ...
e. A cooperative (also known as co-operative, co-op, or coop) is "an autonomous association of persons united voluntarily to meet their common economic, social and cultural needs and aspirations through a jointly owned and democratically-controlled enterprise ". [ 1] Cooperatives are democratically controlled by their members, with each member ...
National Rural Electric Cooperative Association (NRECA) Network of Bay Area Worker Cooperatives (NoBAWC) Northern States Co-operative League (NSCL, established 1921) Philadelphia Area Cooperative Alliance (PACA) Portland Alliance of Worker Cooperatives (PAWC) U.S. Federation of Worker Cooperatives (USFWC) Valley Alliance of Worker Cooperatives.
National Farmers Union. National Farmers Union (officially Farmers Educational and Cooperative Union of America) is a national federation of state Farmers Union organizations in the United States. The organization was founded in 1902 in Point, Texas, and is headquartered in Washington, D.C.. The organization was created to protect and enhance ...
There are generally four major types of cooperative organizations: Consumers' cooperatives, in which the consumers of a co-operative's goods and services are defined as its members (including retail food co-operatives, credit unions, mutual insurance companies, etc.) (Example: REI, federal credit unions, etc.)
The cooperative movement began in Europe in the 19th century, primarily in Britain and France. The Industrial Revolution and the increasing mechanisation of the economy transformed society and threatened the livelihoods of many workers. The concurrent labour and social movements and the issues they attempted to address describe the climate at ...