Greg Patmore and Nikola Balnave
- Published in print:
- 2018
- Published Online:
- September 2018
- ISBN:
- 9780252041839
- eISBN:
- 9780252050503
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Illinois Press
- DOI:
- 10.5622/illinois/9780252041839.003.0014
- Subject:
- History, Economic History
The Rochdale consumer cooperative movements in Australia and the United States, while weak by international standards, have played a significant role in increasing the power of many consumers over ...
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The Rochdale consumer cooperative movements in Australia and the United States, while weak by international standards, have played a significant role in increasing the power of many consumers over the price, quality, and quantity of consumer goods. There have been peaks and troughs in the history of these co-ops for a variety of reasons including inflation, social unrest, competition from private retailers, the level of labor movement and state support, and the influence of immigrant groups. Prior to the end of World War II, Rochdale consumer cooperatives in both countries fluctuated in strength, but they declined in the postwar period with spectacular collapses during the 1980s. Since the 1960s, protest movements have encouraged a new wave of local food cooperatives, particularly in the United States.Less
The Rochdale consumer cooperative movements in Australia and the United States, while weak by international standards, have played a significant role in increasing the power of many consumers over the price, quality, and quantity of consumer goods. There have been peaks and troughs in the history of these co-ops for a variety of reasons including inflation, social unrest, competition from private retailers, the level of labor movement and state support, and the influence of immigrant groups. Prior to the end of World War II, Rochdale consumer cooperatives in both countries fluctuated in strength, but they declined in the postwar period with spectacular collapses during the 1980s. Since the 1960s, protest movements have encouraged a new wave of local food cooperatives, particularly in the United States.
Maurie J. Cohen
- Published in print:
- 2016
- Published Online:
- December 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780198768555
- eISBN:
- 9780191821912
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198768555.003.0006
- Subject:
- Economics and Finance, Public and Welfare, Microeconomics
Chapter 6 seeks to understand how consumer society is likely to be transformed in the future by changes in the organization of work. Consumption patterns are strongly shaped by the availability and ...
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Chapter 6 seeks to understand how consumer society is likely to be transformed in the future by changes in the organization of work. Consumption patterns are strongly shaped by the availability and terms of employment and we seem to be standing on the verge of major upheaval from a new generation of digital technologies that promises to substantially reduce demand for labor. Based on artificial intelligence and robotics, these applications threaten to disrupt entire professions, from accounting to medicine, and to shift markedly the capacity of people to partake in customary provisioning routines. This chapter considers the likelihood of these developments and offers a number of recommendations on how we might reduce some of the dislocation caused by this transition. The establishment of nested networks of worker–consumer cooperatives holds promise to ease some of the hardship of the incipient transition away from consumer society.Less
Chapter 6 seeks to understand how consumer society is likely to be transformed in the future by changes in the organization of work. Consumption patterns are strongly shaped by the availability and terms of employment and we seem to be standing on the verge of major upheaval from a new generation of digital technologies that promises to substantially reduce demand for labor. Based on artificial intelligence and robotics, these applications threaten to disrupt entire professions, from accounting to medicine, and to shift markedly the capacity of people to partake in customary provisioning routines. This chapter considers the likelihood of these developments and offers a number of recommendations on how we might reduce some of the dislocation caused by this transition. The establishment of nested networks of worker–consumer cooperatives holds promise to ease some of the hardship of the incipient transition away from consumer society.
Oliver Zimmer
- Published in print:
- 2013
- Published Online:
- May 2013
- ISBN:
- 9780199571208
- eISBN:
- 9780191751233
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199571208.003.0005
- Subject:
- History, European Modern History, Cultural History
This chapter examines the political implications of municipal citizenship. In this regard, the invention of universal manhood suffrage (1867/71) created a new situation. Suddenly a large part of ...
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This chapter examines the political implications of municipal citizenship. In this regard, the invention of universal manhood suffrage (1867/71) created a new situation. Suddenly a large part of Germany's adult male population could take part in national elections, which contrasted sharply with the political exclusion that continued at the municipal level. Intriguingly, the economically more traditional Ulm proved much more inclusive than either Augsburg or Ludwigshafen am Rhein. But local citizenship was about more than place-making through political exclusion. It was also about men and women organizing themselves in electoral associations and consumer co-operatives.Less
This chapter examines the political implications of municipal citizenship. In this regard, the invention of universal manhood suffrage (1867/71) created a new situation. Suddenly a large part of Germany's adult male population could take part in national elections, which contrasted sharply with the political exclusion that continued at the municipal level. Intriguingly, the economically more traditional Ulm proved much more inclusive than either Augsburg or Ludwigshafen am Rhein. But local citizenship was about more than place-making through political exclusion. It was also about men and women organizing themselves in electoral associations and consumer co-operatives.
Elizabeth J. Perry
- Published in print:
- 2012
- Published Online:
- January 2013
- ISBN:
- 9780520271890
- eISBN:
- 9780520954038
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of California Press
- DOI:
- 10.1525/california/9780520271890.003.0004
- Subject:
- Sociology, Marriage and the Family
This chapter examines the period from 1922 to 1925 when Anyuan—then known as "China's Little Moscow"—served as the most active center of labor organizing in China.
This chapter examines the period from 1922 to 1925 when Anyuan—then known as "China's Little Moscow"—served as the most active center of labor organizing in China.
