Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgments vii
4. INTRODUCTION. Intersecting Histories: Cooperation, Consumerism, and “Le Mouvement Social33 1
5. PART I. Origins and Early Years of Consumer Cooperation
6. 1. Prologue to Consumer Cooperation: Workers’ Associationism, 1834-18S1 15
7. 2. Competing Strands: Individualism versus Collectivism, 1851-1885 29
8. PART II. Consumer Cooperation and the Politics of Commercial Concentration
9. 3. The “Retailing Revolution”: Consumer Cooperatives and Chain Stores 69
10. 4. Consumer Cooperation as the “Third Way”: The Union Cooperative 79
11. 5. Consumer Cooperation as the “Third Pillar”: Socialist Consumer Cooperation 119
12. PART III. Strains and Tensions within Consumer Cooperation
13. 6. Cooperation in the Nord 169
14. 7. Women and Cooperation 199
15. PART IV. Consumer Cooperation and Capitalist Commerce
16. 8. Waltzing with the Capitalists: Re-visioning Consumer Cooperation, 1912-1919 227
17. 9. “A MovementforAll Consumers”: Consumer Cooperation in the 1920s 259
18. CONCLUSION 293
19. Bibliography 297
20. Index 309