1st Edition

Co-operation and Globalisation The British Co-operative Wholesales, the Co-operative Group and the World since 1863

By Anthony Webster Copyright 2019
206 Pages
by Routledge

206 Pages
by Routledge

206 Pages
by Routledge

Globalisation is associated with capitalist multinationals dedicated to the enrichment of wealthy, corporate shareholders. However, less well known is that the English and Scottish Co-operative Wholesale Societies, owned by the growing number of local co-operative societies across the country, were early leaders in global commerce. Owned by their working-class members, by 1900 there were over... Read more

Acknowledgements



Chapter One: Mr Bates Goes to Washington: Industrialisation, Consumerism, Overseas Trade and British Co-operation 1800-1890 - An Overview



Chapter Two: Butter, Dried Fruit and the Big Apple: The Rise of the CWS/SCWS as a Global Business 1863-1890



Chapter Three: Indian Cuppas, West African Soap and Irish Failures: The Maturing of a Global Supply Network? The CWS’s international trade, British Co-operation and the British State 1890-1918



Chapter Four: Dealing with Dictators and Developing the Empire: The Zenith of British Co-operation and the World 1918-1945?



Chapter Five: Retreat and Deconstruction: The Decline of the Global British Co-operative Wholesale Networks 1945-1980 and West Africa and South Asia – Two Case Studies of the Wholesales Overseas



Chapter Six: Rebuilding Global Networks and Moral Regeneration? Evaluating the emergence of the Co-operative Group 1980-2018 within the global history of British wholesale co-operation.



Bibliography



Index

Biography



Anthony Webster is Professor in History at Northumbria University, Newcastle on Tyne, UK.