Empire and Co-operation: How the British Empire used Co-operatives in its Development Strategies 1900-1970 traces how and why the British Empire came to promote co-operatives as part of its development strategies in its dependent territories, and the global impact that this subsequently had.
The book describes how co-operative development policies were implemented in widely varied settings and the results achieved.
By the 1970s co-operatives had become the major alternative business form to investor-led businesses, and their global reach has been attributed to the fact that they are ‘versatile’ and ‘universal’.
The British Empire, the largest the world has known, helped them to become universal by taking them to the four corners of the world.
The book is published in paperback by John Donald. ISBN 9781 9065 66562.
