Co-operatives

CO-OPERATIVES are associations of people who pool their money and time to provide themselves with a fair way of marketing or purchasing products or services. For example, prairie grain farmers organized to sell their grain through wheat pools, while in BC fishers combined to sell their own fish. Co-operative grocery shoppers invest their resources—a share purchase and sometimes their occasional voluntary labour—to provide themselves with goods. Worker co-operatives pool their resources to...

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