Research Catalog

Title

Canadian co-operatives in the year 2000 : memory, mutual aid, and the millennium / edited by Brett Fairbairn, Ian MacPherson, Nora Russell.

Publication

Saskatoon : Centre for the Study of Co-operatives, University of Saskatchewan, c2000.

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Additional Authors

• Fairbairn, Brett, 1959-
• MacPherson, Ian, 1939-
• Russell, Nora
• University of Saskatchewan. Centre for the Study of Co-operatives

Description

vii, 341 p. : ill.; 23 cm.

Subject

• Cooperative societies > Canada > History
• Cooperation > Canada > History

Genre/Form

History

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

• Part I: Memory -- Faiffeisen and Desjardins: Co-operative Leadership, Identity, and Memory / Brett Fairbairn -- 2. The Origins of Savings and Credit Co-Operatives in North America: The work of Alphonse and Dorimene Desjardins / Pierre Poulin -- "In These Pioneers Days" : George Keen and Leadership through Sacrifice and Determination / Ian MacPherson -- "Let Us Co-Operate": Violet McNaughton and the Co-operative Ideal / Georgina M. Taylor -- Ordinary and Exceptional: Leadership in Prairie Consumer Co-operatives, 1914-1945 / Brett Fairbairn -- A New and Disturbing Presence / Michael Welton -- Alexander Fraser Laidlaw: The Leadership of a Flexible Mind / Ian MacPherson -- Canadian Co-operatives and the International Co-operative Alliance / Bruce Thordarson -- Pt. II. Mutual Aid -- Cooperatives in Canada: An Overview: CCA, CCC, and the Co-operatives Secretariat -- Canada's Nonprofit Co-operative Housing Sector: An Alternative that Works / Mark Goldblatt --^
• Co-op Activities in the Health and Social-Care Sector in Quebec / Jean-Pierre Girard -- New Generation Co-operatives and the Canadian Wheat Board / Brian Oleson -- Partnership for Changing Times / David Shanks and John Julian -- From Canada to Senegal: Serving African Women / Paule Drouin, Sandra Mamodhoussen, adn Ghislain Paradis -- The Other Co-operators: Women in Canadian Co-operatives / Leslie Brown -- The Cheticamp Experience: Myth or Reality? / Leonard Buckles -- The EVangeline Co-operative Tradition / Paul Wilkinson (with Jack Quarter) -- Pt. III. Millennium -- Co-operatives in the New Millennium: The Emergence of a New Paradigm / Daniel Cote -- Marketing Co-operation in a Global Society / Tom Webb -- The Future of Co-operation: The Growing Relevance of Co-operative Values and Education / Claude Beland -- A Systems Approach to the Challenges Facing Co-operative Education and Co-operatives / Murray Fulton --^
• Towards a People's Economy: A Co-operative Paradigm / Sidney Pobihushchy -- Co-operative Leadership in the New Millennium / Lou Hammond Ketilson -- No Small Ideas / Bill Turner.

ISBN

0888804105 (pbk.) :

LCCN

cn^00920137^

OCLC

44406040

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library