Building co-operation: a business history of The Co-operative Group, 1863 - 2013
Machine generated contents note: 1. Introduction -- 1.1. Why this book, and why now? -- 1.2. Building Co-operation---Some caveats -- 1.3. Towards a co-operative business history -- 1.4. The co-operative business model and The Co-operative Group -- 1.5.Organization -- pt. I RISE AND REIGN -- 2. The Roots and Rise of British Co-operation, c.1780--1863 -- 2.1. Co-operative initiatives before the 1840s -- 2.2. The Rochdale Pioneers and the Rochdale model -- 2.3. The spread of co-operation in England and experiments in wholesaling, 1844--63 -- 2.4. More concrete moves towards a wholesale society -- 3. The Rise of the CWS, 1863 to 1890: The Birth and Leadership of a Corporate Giant? -- 3.1. The context of co-operative development: British economic and social development, 1860--90, and the retail revolution' -- 3.2. The co-operative movement and the dominance of localism' -- 3.3. Building the CWS: The competitive hothouse' and the rise of a commercial giant