Cooperative movement
Communal Landownership and Production Associations
Vereniging Gemeenschappelijk Grondbezit (GGB) [Association for Communal Land Ownership] was founded by the Dutch writer and...
Workers Paradise
A successful social experiment during the industrial revolution took place in Guise in the north of France. Between 1856 and 1883...
Work Hours on a Voucher
Robert Owen was the "father" of the Co-operative movement. One of his creations in 1832 was the National Equitable Labour...
Flourishing Co-Operative Business
July 3 1863 was the founding date of the Co-operative Wholesale Society in Manchester. The roots of the co-operative movement are...
First tree in Agnetapark, Delft
As one of the first Dutch entrepreneurs who also cared about the social welfare of his employees, Van Marken studied foreign...
Society for Common Ownership of Land
The IISH received an important addition to the archive of the Vereniging Gemeenschappelijk Grondbezit [Society for Common...
Between Cross and Class
In the late nineteenth century in a number of continental European countries Christian associations of workers arose: Christian...
