Routledge Revivals: New Views of Co-operation (1988)

<p>First published in 1988 this book sets out to reinterpret the changing place of working-class association in capitalist Britain. It argues that in combination co-operation and association constitutes labour’s power — what is has to work with and who to work for — yet social historians have tended to overlook such views in a co-operative setting. What was the struggle what form did it take who were the protagonists and what relevance did they have to the community co-operators of the 1980s? The essays collected in this book explore class potential and class conflict within and against co-operative thought and practice.</p>