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370 WOMEN AND CO-OPERATION.
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whom operation The Co agency , -operation in its by technical which could they do sense most have ; but are ac , c om those p f lished ear least , that this acquainted those , is Co for
"with The its idea nature of reconci and history linthe . claims , of ital and labororat
least , of protecting the g latter from monopolists cap of the former , , , century has been but more the particular less famil schemes iar to th entertained eorists throu for ghout so doing this
were lon ; g discredited by their accidental connection with communistic and revolutionarrinciles . Within the last
thirty years , however , ( jo-opera y tive p associations p on . sound prin-B cip ussia les have America been established and Australia in this in al country l of whi , France laces , G they erm have any ,
been success , ful , long as no , t officially interfered p with . In Great Britainthe , number of Co-operative societies registered
in oods 1862 amoun was 332 t , , to and £ 2 in 067 the 867 same . year In August , the sums of this they paid their for
num g bers had risen to 5 , , showing , a proportionate increa year se of total revenueandsince the legal impediments to partnership
have been removed , , , the spread of the system has proceeded steadil The y first at this established rapid ra and te . the most flourishing of these
instinamed tutions is themselves that of the begun Rochdal in e 1844 Pioneers by , as for they ty workin appropriatel men y
mostly poor flannel , weavers , who , with , difficulty , raised amon g gst , themselves £ 28 with which to furnish a store to
lthemselves and their , families with provisions more supp economicall y y than was done by the small retail dealers whose hih prices and
long credits ruin both themselves and their customers g . At the close of 1845 the number of members had doubledthe ital
amounted to , £ 181 12 s . 3 d . and the weekly sales averaged , cap £ 30 . Now corn , and the cotton Pioneer mills s pos and sess , their nearl annual y a street profits of shops are reckoned , as well b as y
thousands . The sliare , women have taken in the movement is members not considerable of the . Stores ! By the ( the usual most payment numerous they and successful can become of
- of Co- the operative societ establishments they belong ) to , they and sometimes of course serve derive in the the shops same
pecuniary benefit y as other members , from the intelligence of their exertionsbut in the Committees of Managementselected
generally ; by rotation , women do not sit , neither are , we aware of the existence of any Co-operative associations of women
alone , even in the trades exercised by themselves exclusively . bodies The liberality are deserving and intelli of the gence highest of most praise existing ; still , what Co-operativ we have e
remed said seems y most to especiall show , that y adapted though to their meet system the wants may of provide destitute a
370 Women And Co-Operation.
370 WOMEN AND CO-OPERATION .
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Feb. 1, 1864, page 370, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01021864/page/10/
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