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Cooperative

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What is a Co-operative?

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What is a (Housing) Co-operative?

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Co-operative Businesses I A Level and IB Economics

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A cooperative is "an autonomous association of persons united voluntarily to meet their common economic, social, and cultural needs and aspirations through a jointly-owned and democratically-controlled enterprise". Cooperatives may include: non-profit community organizations businesses owned and managed by the people who use their services organisations managed by the people who work there organisations managed by the people to whom they provide accommodation hybrids such as worker cooperatives that are also consumer cooperatives or credit unions multi-stakeholder cooperatives such as those that bring together civil society and local actors to deliver community needs second- and third-tier cooperatives whose members are other cooperatives
  • Origins and history 

  • Meaning 

  • Economic stability 

  • Types of cooperatives 

  • Women in cooperatives 

  • Cooperatives in popular culture 

  • Bibliography