Show threadagileJan 31

Ask Them This:
Why do consultants sell cost-cutting that requires paying extra for emergencies? If sharing resources saves money, why are cloud CEOs buying yachts while your co-op lays off cheesemongers?

#Cooperatives #CloudCosts #TechConsultants #CoopHistory #EconomicJustice #SelfHosted #CorporateGreed #CommunityResilience #FoodCoops #HiddenFees (4/4)

Michael BellAug 23, 2023

Had a tip-off that these were in a local charity shop, so snaffled them all up for Β£2 each. Old small posters for the Co-operative Wholesale Society

#CoopHistory

Michael BellJan 16, 2023
A small piece of #CoopHistory here. The Federation Brewery was owned by the Clubs & Institutes Union, providing cheap beer for customer-owned bars around the UK from 1921 until 2004
Matt Cropp 🌲🌲May 22, 2021

Hot #coophistory take:

The #AntiMill movement, rather than the Rochdale Equitable Pioneers, should be seen as the "start" of the Anglophone consumer cooperative movement.

https://books.google.com/books?id=tSe8AAAAIAAJ&pg=PA12&lpg=PA12&dq=anti-mill+movement&source=bl&ots=ntzKbQbLQs&sig=ACfU3U2GjRNVsTbwrSNM3x1E5FlfkJ-zMA&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjT3qT49NvwAhXUFlkFHfG4CGQQ6AEwDHoECB8QAg#v=onepage&q=anti-mill%20movement&f=false

Co-operative Culture and the Politics of Consumption in England, 1870-1930

Consumers' co-operation was an integral part of working-class community life earlier this century. Millions knew their 'divi' number off by heart and the Co-op store was a familiar landmark in most neighbourhoods, particularly in the industrial North. This innovative, research-based book presents a positive critique of the co-operative alternative to emerging capitalist forms of mass consumption in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. This alternative was embedded in the culture of the movement and Peter Gurney provides a full analysis of that culture - its strategy and ambition, social and educational forms, internationalism and historical consciousness. The author argues that the dominant 'mode of consumption' which eventually emerged was not inevitable but was the outcome of complex social and economic struggles which historians have only just begun to investigate.

Matt Cropp 🌲🌲Aug 5, 2019
Interesting article on religious and secular motivations in the #coop movement, with some interesting #CoopHistory tid-bits: https://www.thenews.coop/141134/sector/community/religious-faith-lack-driven-co-operative-culture/
How has religious faith - or the lack of it - driven co-operative culture? - Co-operative News

Research suggests faith values can overlap with other faith and ethical values to drive co-operation

Co-operative News
Matt Cropp 🌲🌲Mar 31, 2019

Louise Herring was one of the people who GOT SHIT DONE in the early US #CreditUnion movement. Provided assistance in establishing 500+ #CreditUnions...

#cuhistory #coop #coophistory #coops

Matt Cropp 🌲🌲Feb 21, 2018

As it's #BlackHistoryMonth, I figured I share a snippet from an interview I shot years ago of Helen Godfrey-Smith of #Shreveport #Louisiana, in which she recounts her mentor's experiences of segregation in the southern #creditunion movement.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H9rTAQijufY&t=0s&list=PLkTVznxgP79IomIq6dv2Ngqo47L21nwJc&index=2

#BHM #creditunionhistory #creditunions #coophistory

Segregation in the Early Credit Union Movement: Helen Godfrey-Smith

YouTube
Matt Cropp 🌲🌲Jul 12, 2017

Hey #Coop nerds - Pop Quiz!

What was the core issue at the center of the #CooperativeFederalism vs. #CooperativeIndividualism debate?

#socialcoop #platformcoop #coops #coophistory #creditunion #creditunions