International Co-operative Alliance and the consumer co-operative movement in northern Europe, c. 1860-1939 (eBook)

Mary Hilson (Autor)

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2018
Manchester University Press (Verlag)
978-1-5261-2734-1 (ISBN)

Infos

The book examines the history of co-operation in the broad context of the history of consumerism and consumption; of internationalism and the development of international organisations; and debates about international trade during the inter-war period. The fundamental question explored in the book concerns the meaning of co-operation. Was it a social movement or an economic enterprise? Did it aspire to challenge capitalism or to reform it? Did it contain at its heart a political vision for the transformation of society or was it simply a practical guide for organising a business? Hilson argues that it was both, but that an examination of the debates over the different meanings of co-operation can also illuminate broader questions about the emergence of consumer interests in the first half of the twentieth century, especially in a transnational context.

Autor

Mary Hilson is Professor in the Department of History and Classical Studies at Aarhus University

Inhalt

Introduction: a transnational approach to co-operative history
1 Co-operation in the Nordic countries before 1914: international networks and the transmission of ideas
2 Co-operative internationalism in practice: the International Co-operative Alliance (ICA) before and after the First World War
3 The politics of international co-operation: neutrality and crisis
4 Nordisk Andelsforbund (NAF), co-operative trade and Nordic co-operation during the interwar period
5 Co-operation and the emergence of the Nordic ‘middle way’
Conclusion
Bibliography
Index

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 1.6.2018
• Verlagsort: Manchester
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Wirtschaftsgeschichte
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Europäische / Internationale Politik
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Vergleichende Politikwissenschaften
• Themenwelt: Wirtschaft ► Volkswirtschaftslehre ► Makroökonomie
• Schlagworte: Co-operation • Co-operative Movement • International Co-operative Alliance (ICA) • internationalism • inter-war period • Nordic Countries
• ISBN-10: 1-5261-2734-2 / 1526127342
• ISBN-13: 978-1-5261-2734-1 / 9781526127341