Journal of Co-operative Studies
Vol. 41:2 (No. 123) August 2008

Contents

 

Editorial

 

Refereed Articles

 

The ‘Mutualisation’ of Public Services in Britain: a critical commentary

by Johnston Birchall (abstract)

 

Do Large Membership-Based Businesses have a Future in the Twenty First

Century? Some reflections on UK retail co-operative societies

by Cliff Mills (abstract)

 

Co-operative Governance: the case of Spanish Credit Co-operatives

by Rafael Chaves, Francisco Soler and Antonia Sajardo (abstract)

 

Short Articles

 

The Worker Co-operative Code of Governance

by Bob Cannell (abstract)

 

Governing for Success - a Code of Governance for Credit Unions

by Chris Canham

 

Deepening Co-operativism

by Peter Somerville (abstract)

 

Book Reviews

 

The Dictionary of Alternatives

(Martin Parker, Valérie Fournier and Patrick Reedy)

Reviewed by Len Arthur

 

The Future of Co-operatives in a Growing Europe

(Edited by Rafael Chaves, Jose Juis Monzon, Yohanan Stryjan, Roger Spear

and Simeon Karafolas)

Reviewed by Rita Rhodes

 

The Co-operative Party - Literature Feast and Famine

Jim Craigen