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  2. Rochdale Society of Equitable Pioneers - Wikipedia

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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

  3. Rochdale Pioneers Museum - Wikipedia

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    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.

  4. The Rochdale Pioneers - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  5. History of the cooperative movement - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  6. Samuel Ashworth (co-operator) - Wikipedia

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    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.

  7. William Cooper (co-operator) - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  8. Rochdale - Wikipedia

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    The Rochdale Pioneers opened the first Co-operative shop in Toad Lane in 1844. [18] The reformer and Member of Parliament , John Bright (1811–1889), was born in Rochdale and gained a reputation as a leader of political dissent and supporter of the Anti-Corn Law League .

  9. Consumers' co-operative - Wikipedia

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    The Rochdale Society of Equitable Pioneers was established in 1844 and defined the modern cooperative movement. The first successful co-operative was the Rochdale Society of Equitable Pioneers, established in England in 1844. This became the basis for the development and growth of the modern cooperative movement. [10]