Cooperatives Renowned Personalities/ Organizations

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2. Historical Breakthroughs (Just compiling this here. I might add some more details
later. Dont worry. Ill explain and expound in the presentation. Thanks. -Vani)
The first documented consumer cooperative was founded in 1769,[2] in a barely furnished
cottage in Fenwick, East Ayrshire, when local weavers manhandled a sack of oatmeal
into John Walker's whitewashed front room and began selling the contents at a discount,
forming the Fenwick Weavers' Society.
1810: Welsh social reformer Robert Owen, from Newtown in mid-Wales, and his partners
purchased New Lanark mill from Owen's father-in-law David Dale and proceeded to
introduce better labour standards including discounted retail shops where profits were
passed on to his employees. Owen left New Lanark to pursue other forms of cooperative
organization and develop co-op ideas through writing and lecture. Cooperative
communities were set up inGlasgow, Indiana and Hampshire, although ultimately
unsuccessful
1830: there were several hundred co-operatives.[4] Some were initially successful, but
most cooperatives founded in the early 19th century had failed by 1840.[5] However,
Lockhurst Lane Industrial Co-operative Society (founded in 1832 and now Heart of
England Co-operative Society), and Galashiels and Hawick Co-operative Societies (1839
or earlier, merged with The Co-operative Group) still trade today.[6][7]
1844: The Rochdale Society of Equitable Pioneers was founded. It is considered the first
successful cooperative enterprise and is often used as a model of moder co-ops. They
established the Rochdale Principles
*English CWS
Mid 19th Century: mutual organisations embraced these ideas in economic enterprises,
firstly amongst tradespeople, and later in cooperative stores, educational institutes,
financial institutions and industrial enterprises. The common thread (enacted in different
ways, and subject to the constraints of various systems of national law) is the principle
that an enterprise or association should be owned and controlled by the people it serves,
and share any surpluses on the basis of each member's cooperative contribution (as a
producer, labourer or consumer) rather than their capacity to invest financial capital.
1883: Alice Acland, the editor of the "Women's Corner" in the "Co-operative News"
publication, and Mary Lawrenson, a teacher, recognized the need for a separate women's
organization within the Cooperative Movement and began organizing a "Woman's League
for the Spread of Co-operation"

End of the 20th Century: cooperatives banded together to establish a number of social
enterprise agencies which have moved to adopt the multi-stakeholder cooperative
model.[8][9] In the last 15 years (19942009) the EU and its member nations have gradually
revised national accounting systems to "make visible" the increasing contribution of
social economy organizations.[10]