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Making Wheels
A technical manual on wheel manufacture
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.
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 |
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