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DTSTART:20171025T150000Z
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SUMMARY:Co-operation: Old Ideas for New Times?
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DESCRIPTION:Speakers: Peter Gurney (Professor of History\, University of 
 Essex)\, and Cilla Ross (Vice-Principal of the Co-operative College).\nD
 iscussant: Kevin Morgan (Professor of Politics\, University of Mancheste
 r).\n\nAll welcome. Book a free place via the eventbrite link on this pa
 ge.\n\nThis seminar reflects upon the Co-operative Movement past and pre
 sent. Peter Gurney talks about his personal and intellectual engagement 
 with the history of the Co-operative movement. He focuses on the questio
 n of the ‘decline’ of this remarkable social and economic institution\, 
 especially after World War 2\, and his own attempt to try to understand 
 that complex\, uneven process. Three key themes are singled out: the imp
 act of changes in class structure and consciousness\; divisions between 
 but also within genders\; and the context of Cold War\, which he will ar
 gue helped marginalise the co-operative alternative in Britain in hither
 to unacknowledged ways.\n\nDr Cilla Ross will then link the past to the 
 present context. She will show how in the UK\, co-operation emerged as a
  values based social movement during the profound disruption of early in
 dustrialisation. Understood as both a skill and a virtue for much of the
  nineteenth century\, it took many forms - from the giant retail and con
 sumer co-operatives of the global north\, to the agricultural co-operati
 ves of developing economies. Now\, post 2008\, with the future of work c
 ontested\, the networked and platform society in the ascendancy and an i
 deological attack on the state rampant\, co-operation appears to be gain
 ing some traction as an alternative form of economic and social organisa
 tion. However does this new interest reflect the ‘normalisation’ of aust
 erity\, privatisation ‘by the good guys’ or a genuine\, transformational
  opportunity to build a movement for a new society?\n\n
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TRANSP:TRANSPARENT
CLASS:PUBLIC
LOCATION:Room 1.219\, University Place\, Manchester
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