ABSTRACT
This chapter investigates co-operative production within Britain. Co-Operative production exists at the present time in three fairly well-defined forms-in the factories and workshops of the two great Wholesale societies, in connection with the retail distributive stores or with federations of these, and in separate productive associations. Because of their extent and long history, rather than because of any distinctive characteristics, a fourth group is generally distinguished in the Corn Mill Societies. This interesting reissue will be of particular value to students of economics with an interest in co-operative industry and the history of economic thought.
