Let Our Co-operative Spirit Stand: A Centenary History of Resilience and Adaptation in the Co-operative Federation of Western Australia 1919-2019 by Bruce Baskerville

Book Description

Secondhand. Very good condition. Minor wear to book corners and edges.

Let Our Co-operative Spirit Stand is a window into the neglected history of co-operation and community building in Western Australia.

Bruce Baskerville explores questions such as when the first co-operatives formed in Western Australia, who were the leaders of the Westralian co-operatives movement, where did the co-operative stores once ubiquitous in country towns come from – and where did they go, what do Rockdale and Raiffeisen mean, what did co-operation have to do with developing local identities, and is Western Australia’s story of co-operation in any way distinctive.

Let Our Co-operative Spirit Stand is a story of successes and failures, human ingenuity and frailties, of conflicts and curious alliances between co-operative purists and local adapters, and of the Federation they created to pursue their common aims.

Foreword by the Hon Robert French AC.