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The Rochdale Society of Equitable Pioneers, founded in 1844, was an early consumers' co-operative, and one of the first to pay a patronage dividend, forming the basis for the modern co-operative movement. [1] Although other co-operatives preceded it, [2] the Rochdale
The sixth of the Rochdale Principles states that co-operatives cooperate with each other. According to the ICA's Statement on the Co-operative Identity, "Co-operatives serve their members most effectively and strengthen the co-operative movement by working together through local, national, regional and international structures." [2]
The Rochdale Pioneers quickly became an inspiration for a wide part of the society, and the co-operative movement started to be known nationally and internationally. As a result, the Co-operative Union purchased the building at 31 Toad Lane in 1925, expressly to create a museum that enhanced the birthplace of co-operation.
The Co-operative Group formed gradually over 140 years from the merger of many independent retail societies, and their wholesale societies and federations. In 1863, twenty years after the Rochdale Pioneers opened their co-operative, the North of England Co-operative Society was launched by 300 individual co-ops across Yorkshire and Lancashire ...
Commissioned by The Co-operative Group [12] and produced by the Co-operative British Youth Film Academy, [12] The Rochdale Pioneers was released as part of the United Nations International Year of Cooperatives, 2012. [13] [14] A documentary, The Making of 'The Rochdale Pioneers', was also created to accompany the film. This was directed and ...
The legacy of this was that many people consider the British co-operative movement to be one business, The Co-operative Group. [4] By the start of the 1990s the co-operative movement's share of the UK grocery market had declined to the point where the entire business model was under question.
Ashworth was born on the 15 January 1825 near Rochdale, Lancashire to Miles and Jane Ashworth. Miles was a weaver who was also active in the co-operative movement. Like his father, Ashworth became a flannel weaver. In 1844 Ashworth was, alongside his father, a founding member of the Rochdale Society of Equitable Pioneers.
In 1860 he authored the pamphlet History of the Rochdale District Co-operative Corn Mill Society. [6] [7] He died on 31 October 1868 from typhus at the age of 46 and was buried in Rochdale Cemetery. Upon his death George Holyoake praised Cooper for his unrelenting commitment to co-operation and the "drudgery" of his work promoting the movement ...