Co-Operative Industry (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

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As regards the wider impersonal forces, they are found in the changes wrought by that industrial revolution which, long before the little group of twenty-eight men in Rochdale had with difficulty collected their twenty-eight pounds Of capital and started their little store, had swept away for ever the Old peaceful but stagnant domestic system of industry, and in introducing the large system, had at the same time created the new class, numerous and distinct, of the factory employee. Much of the history of co-operation is the record of an industrial expedient by which this new class has endeavoured to deal with the new pro hlems, social and economic, with which it was confronted.

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