Journal of Co-operative Studies 64, 63-66

Journal of Co-operative Studies, No. 64 - return to full issue

Abstract

Since 1979, there has been rapid growth in areas of co-operative organisations such as housing co-operatives, and worker co-operatives. The renaissance of the co-operative movement and the revitalisation of co-operative ethics and their manifestation in new and revived forms would appear to rest uneasily with a Government that is condemned on the one hand for 'material individualism' and on the pother, for permitting the expansion of multinational companies, In this article, I argue that the decline of class consciousness has resulted in the revival rather than destruction of co-operative ethics in British society.