Understanding Cooperatives: Cooperative Business Principles

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Lane to purchase supplies and consumer goods cooperatively. The original subscrip-tion was one English pound for one share of stock. The Rochdale Society took the best ideas developed throughout the history of cooperatives and molded them into one set of good business practices and poli-cies that, 150 years later, evolved into prin-

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