 | Routledge Revivals: New Views of Co-operation (1988): Working-Class Politics in Britain and Sweden Subjects: Economics Finance Business & Industry; Humanities; Politics & International Relations; Social Sciences; Comparative Politics; Economics; History; Political Philosophy; Sociology & Social Policy; Economic Theory & Philosophy; Industrial Economics; Labour Economics; Political Economy; British History; Modern History 1750-1945; Social & Cultural History; Economic History; Political History; Labor History; Democracy; Political Sociology; Social Class; 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. |
