Purveyors told us about cooperatives of three or four families who alternate trips to the market.
During the Soviet era, marketing cooperatives of the U.S.S.R. and eastern Europe functioned as part of a centrally controlled purchasing network for farm produce.
The money went to cooperatives of farmers, who voted to apply it to development projects like new schools, health care facilities and equipment to improve the productivity of farms and the quality of their coffee.
Sharing in the popular belief that cooperatives offered an alternative to the revolutionary activity in western Europe, Walras and Léon Say in 1865 began a bank for producers' cooperatives, of which Walras became managing director.
His riveting social history of personal computing, "What the Dormouse Said: How the Sixties Counterculture Shaped the Personal Computer Industry," links collaborations of the defense community after World War II to the nascent cooperatives of the American counterculture.
This view was central to the cooperatives of black and white small farmers of the late 19th century at the base of the Populist Party, the labor movements of the 1930s and the civil rights struggle in the 1950s and 1960s.
