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Description: | This photograph shows young members of the Grays Co-operative Society (GCS) at around the turn of the 20th Century. GCS was founded in 1866 and over the next century was involved in a number of activities. The object of co-operatives is for people to form voluntary associations in order to work together to further their own economic and social interests. The examples best known today are probably the Co-op chain of supermarkets and Co-op funeral directors. Historically one of the ways in which co-ops rewarded their members was with the dividend or ?divi.? The GCS was merged into the London Co-operative Society (LCS) in 1967. This photograph shows some of the society?s younger members, who were being educated about Co-operation. | License: | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.5/ | Publisher: | Bishopsgate Institute | Rights holder: | Bishopsgate Institute | Subjects: | Leisure Home and Family | Temporal: | c1910 | Source: | Bishopsgate Institute | Identifier: | http://www.20thcenturylondon.org.uk/rser... | Go to resource |
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