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Making Wheels
A technical manual on wheel manufacture
Published: 1994
Pages: 160
eBook: 9781780442747
Paperback: 9781853391415
A low-cost technology which will enable workshops to set up their own facilities and manufacture a range of wheels from standard steel sections. For those familiar with metalworking techniques. Presented with technical drawings and sketches.
Foreword vii
1. Introduction: What are workers'co-operatives? 1
2. Formal workers' co-operatives in industrialized
countries 7
3. Industrialized country successes: kibbutzes and
Mondragon 21
4. Three British failures: Kirkby, the Scottish Daily
News, and Meriden 30
5. The developing country experience 41
6. Introduction to the case studies 50
The Puri Road Coir Business, India 53
The Das Brothers Plastic Moulders, India 58
The Ibadan Co-operative Tailors' Society, Nigeria 64
The Thusano Silversmiths, Botswana 69
The Nia Welders' Society, Tanzania 77
Clays of Jamaica Co-operative 84
The Sekondi-Takoradi Tailors' Co-operative
Society, Ghana 92
The Musika Catering Co-operative, Zimbabwe 102
The Marama Co-operative Society, Fiji 106
Candle Industries Co-operative, Dominica 113
The Mandro Stonecutters' Co-operative, India 121
The Shumgu Women's Group, Zimbabwe 129
The Orissa Filigree Workers' Co-operative
Society, India 134
7. The Lessons 141
References 146
Select Bibliography 148
1. Introduction: What are workers'co-operatives? 1
2. Formal workers' co-operatives in industrialized
countries 7
3. Industrialized country successes: kibbutzes and
Mondragon 21
4. Three British failures: Kirkby, the Scottish Daily
News, and Meriden 30
5. The developing country experience 41
6. Introduction to the case studies 50
The Puri Road Coir Business, India 53
The Das Brothers Plastic Moulders, India 58
The Ibadan Co-operative Tailors' Society, Nigeria 64
The Thusano Silversmiths, Botswana 69
The Nia Welders' Society, Tanzania 77
Clays of Jamaica Co-operative 84
The Sekondi-Takoradi Tailors' Co-operative
Society, Ghana 92
The Musika Catering Co-operative, Zimbabwe 102
The Marama Co-operative Society, Fiji 106
Candle Industries Co-operative, Dominica 113
The Mandro Stonecutters' Co-operative, India 121
The Shumgu Women's Group, Zimbabwe 129
The Orissa Filigree Workers' Co-operative
Society, India 134
7. The Lessons 141
References 146
Select Bibliography 148
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