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The International Co-operative Movement
Johnston Birchall
This book provides a comprehensive historical guide to each co-operative sector: agricultural, housing, consumer and worker co-ops, credit unions, co-operative insurance and banking, energy and health co-ops, showing how each type of co-op grew out of responses to industrial and agricultural revolutions, and how they combined to form an international movement. It provides an overview of the history and current status of co-ops in every world region, with themes such as reconstruction in Eastern Europe, structural adjustment in Africa, the role of women, and rural development, urban regeneration, environmental sustainability and ethical trading.
ISBN: 0-71904824-9
Manchester University Press, 1997, 120 illustrations, 257 pp.
The International Co-operative Alliance in War and Peace 1910-1950
Rita Rhodes
This book looks at the reasons why the International Co-operative Alliance survived both World Wars and the Cold War when other international working-class movements such as the Socialist International and the World Federation of Trade Unions split under the pressures of total war and divisions of doctrine.
ISBN: 92 9054 001 X
ICA, 1995, 423 pp.
Co-operative Principles for the 21st Century
Ian MacPherson
Dr. MacPherson's message to delegates to ICA General Assembly in Manchester in September 1995. A richly illustrated version of his three-part report begins with the Statement on the Co-operative Identity and includes the revised set of Co-operative Principles, adopted by the General Assembly. The accompanying background paper explains the context within which the statement evolved and elaborates upon some of its key-features. More detailed information about world-wide co-operative development in the past, and challenges for the future, is contained in the final section of the report. The co-operative movement is a movement of perpetual promise, a movement of becoming not ending. It never achieves a state of perfection; it never rests satisfied with what it has accomplished. It is a movement that has always been torn between what its philosophy suggests and the contemporary world requires. It a movement that fails unless committed, pragmatic co-operators continuously consider the choices their co-operatives must make in responding to member needs.
ISBN: 92 9054 007 9 - English
ISBN: 92 9054 010 9 - French
ICA, Geneva, 1995, 72 pp. including 150 photos.
The International Co-operative Alliance 1895-1970
W. P. Waktins
This book was published to mark the 75th anniversary of the ICA, this comprehensive work presents the history of the organization, from its very beginning up to the year 1970. The author gives the background of ICA's evolution, from its first manifestations in 1895, to its present status, as the world's largest NGO recognised by the UN. The book also analyses the ICA in relation to its constitution, expansion, working methods, international collaboration, regional development, etc.
Also available in French.
ICA, London, 1970, 385 pp.
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