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Description: | This photograph shows a co-operative furniture store in Chesham High Street. The modern co-operative movement has its origins in the activities of the Rochdale Pioneers in 1844. 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. This aim is to be achieved through a jointly-owned, democratically-controlled entity. 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.? This store, run by the Chesham and High Wycombe Co-operative Society, is somewhat unusual in that it does not market food or funerals. | License: | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.5/ | Publisher: | Bishopsgate Institute | Rights holder: | Bishopsgate Institute | Subjects: | Home and Family | Temporal: | c1960 | Source: | Bishopsgate Institute | Identifier: | http://www.20thcenturylondon.org.uk/rser... | Go to resource |
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