This is a pretty straightforward
encyclopedia of the cooperative movement, both internationally and
country-by-country. Each entry is relatively brief, dealing with topics such as
the International Liaison Committee on Cooperative Thrift and Credit (alias
CLICEC), the International Raiffeisen Union, the cooperative movement in
Uzbekistan, or the utopian socialists Robert Owen and Charles Fourier. G K Chesterton
and Distributism are not mentioned. An extensive bibliography is included – if
you want to know more about Ujamaa villages in Tanzania, Israeli kibbutzim or
the contretemps of the Owenites in these United States, this is the volume for
you! Finally, I can't help sharing the most based dictionary entry I've ever
seen, quoted in full: “International Union of Food, Agricultural, Hotel,
Restaurant, Catering, Tobacco, and Allied Workers' Associations (IUF). See:
International Federation of Plantation, Agricultural and Allied Workers.” There
you have it, fam.
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