ABSTRACT
Contemporary movements in agriculture are best illustrated by the latest trends in the development of cooperative organizations in Yugoslavia. Changes which are taking place in peasant cooperatives are of a magnitude that entitles people to speak of a real transformation of this important type of cooperative. Workers' self-management and farming collaboration have been the key factors, the fermentation points, of the profound changes that have taken place not only in the concept of the peasant cooperative but also in the concept of the cooperative in the classical sense of the word. Peasant cooperatives were given full freedom to adjust their work to existing economic and social conditions since they were allowed to form three varieties of cooperative organization. The classical mode of cooperative management was well suited to the lower forms of cooperative (purchasing-selling and credit cooperatives) where the necessary economic incentive was provided by the distribution of income according to the volume of purchases of every member.
