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Citizens Co-op was a legal entity in the State of Florida that was structured to operate as a cooperative. Its mission was to act as a local food grocer, [5] educate consumers about their food, [11] [5] and to contribute to the local community. [12]
An ambitious campaign launched in 1875 launched a cooperative, the Florida Cooperative Stock Company, but it was not successful. The Grange started to decline in the late 1870s, as it did elsewhere in the United States, and the Grange had left Florida by 1880. [2] A predecessor to the Populist Party was the Independent movement in 1884.
On May 20, 2019, the National Register of Historic Places in the United States, listed two four story sixteen apartment buildings, Alku 1 and Alku Toinen, (Finnish for Beginning 1 and 2), located at 816 and 826 43rd Street, Kings County Brooklyn New York, as the first two coop buildings in the US, built by Finnish immigrants, on the National Register of Historic Places.
TheSugar Cane Growers Cooperative of Florida dates began in the 1950s when 16 farmers met to discuss joining together with other farmers in the Glades Area, west of West Palm Beach, Florida, and southeast of Lake Okeechobee, to form a farming cooperative. In July 1960, 54 farmer-members chartered Sugar Cane Growers Cooperative of Florida.
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George Herman Wedgworth (October 6, 1928 – November 16, 2016) played a significant role in Florida agriculture having founded Sugar Cane Growers Cooperative of Florida in 1960. [1] Wedgworth [2] [3] founded the Cooperative, and until his retirement in October 2013, served as Chairman of the Board. He led the Cooperative for 53 years and ...
A second common form of co-operative federation is a co-operative union, whose objective (according to Gide) is “to develop the spirit of solidarity among societies and... in a word, to exercise the functions of a government whose authority, it is needless to say, is purely moral.” [2] Co-operatives UK and the International Co-operative Alliance are examples of such arrangements.
For All The People: Uncovering the Hidden History of Cooperation, Cooperative Movements, and Communalism in America, PM Press, by John Curl, 2009; Humanizing The Economy: Cooperatives in an Age of Capital, New Society Publishers, 2010; The Cooperative Solution, by E. G. Nadeau, 2012. A popular and contemporary introduction to cooperative economics.