When a business isn’t a business: law and the political in the history of the United Kingdom’s co-operative movement

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Zitierfähiger Link (URI): http://hdl.handle.net/10900/98166
http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bsz:21-dspace-981664
http://dx.doi.org/10.15496/publikation-39547
Dokumentart: Wissenschaftlicher Artikel
Erscheinungsdatum: 2012
Originalveröffentlichung: Oñati Socio-Legal Series, 2-1, 2012
Sprache: Englisch
Fakultät: Kriminologisches Repository
Fachbereich: Kriminologie
DDC-Klassifikation: 330 - Wirtschaft
340 - Recht
Schlagworte: Genossenschaft , Wirtschaftsrecht
Freie Schlagwörter:
Co-operative Law
the political
politics
social movements
institutionalization
United Kingdom
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Abstract:

Contemporary efforts to develop and promote co-operatives and the social economy confront a tension in the competing and often conflicting aims to achieve commercial sustainability in a capitalist market while also promoting social transformation. Through a review of the historical experience of institutionalization in the Co-operative Movement in the United Kingdom, this article attempts to generate insights into these tensions. Despite being seen as unpolitical, co-operatives can be understood as political at the level of re-shaping sociality through co-operative practice. Although the similarity between co-operatives and joint-stock companies produces ambiguities within the movement, this does not in itself detract from the co-operative project. It is argued that the codification of co-operatives in law as bodies corporate constitutes the closure of the political aspect of co-operation and reinforces and gives consequence to the misconception of co-operatives as primarily commercial entities.

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