Their Own Idea
Lessons from workers co-operatives
Written for those whose job it is to assist people to start their own businesses, or who are considering the merits of group as opposed to individual enterprise, this book looks at 13 case studies which all contain important lessons.
Published: 1992
Pages: 160
eBook: 9781780440989
Paperback: 9781853391392
| 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 |
Malcolm Harper
Malcolm Harper taught at Cranfield School of Management until 1995, and since then has worked mainly in India. He has published on enterprise development and microfinance. He was Chairman of Basix Finance from 1996 until 2006, and is Chairman of M-CRIL, the microfinance credit rating agency.
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