Cooperative Commonwealth: Co-Ops in Rural Minnesota, 1859-1939 - Hardcover

Keillor, Steven J.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0873513770 ISBN 13: 9780873513777

Publisher: Minnesota Historical Society Press,U.S., 2000

Synopsis

The author examines how rural Minnesotans used the principles of cooperation to gain control of local economies and to exercise that control according to democratic principles. It is also a biography of rural people, told in their own words through newspapers and minutes of local meetings.

About this title

Synopsis

In this groundbreaking work, Keillor examines how rural Minnesotans used the principles of co-operation in their attempt to gain control of local economies and to exercise that control according to democratic principles. More than 600 co-operative creameries, 150 township mutual fire insurance companies, hundreds of rural telephone associations, and 270 farmers' elevators were impressive proof of the power of co-operation before World War II. Minnesota became known as one of the most co-operative-minded states in the Union. Many of these types of co-operatives have never been studies, and none has been adequately analysed. This is a collective biography of Minnesota's rural people, told in their own words through newspapers and minutes of local meetings.

Edition details

• Publisher: Minnesota Historical Society Press,U.S.
• Publication date: 2000
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0873513770
• ISBN 13: 9780873513777
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 500