Description: With contributions from over 30 scholars, A Global History of Consumer Co-operation surveys the origins and development of the consumer co-operative movement throughout the world from the mid-nineteenth century until the present day.
Review Quotes: "Anyone working on the cooperative movement will have this book on their bookshelves. It very much assembles the state of the art in the history of consumer cooperation." - Stefan Berger, "What is New in the History of Social Movements?", in: Moving the Social, Volume 59 (2018), pp. 115-127 [DOI: 10.13154/mts.59.2018.115-127]
"By illuminating the divergent histories of consumer cooperative movements in industrialized countries in Europe, North America, and Asia, A Global History makes an important contribution to scholarship. [...] Hilson and her collaborators will remain widely read for decades." - Carl J. Strikwerda, in: International Review of Social History 63:1 (2018), pp. 127-142 [DOI:10.1017/S0020859017000670]
"The book is not uncritical of divisions between co-ops over markets, or of the tensions between cheap goods, colonial production, and ethical matters, or of failures such as the Berkeley co-op. Like its subject, this book is unwieldy, yet worldly; its ambitions are greater than the sum of its parts, but those parts are very rewarding in their detail--and those ambitions are inestimably worthy, enduring, and global." - Lawrence Black, in: Economic History Review 71:2 (2018), pp. 692-694