This startling collection of excerpts from A. Honora Enfield’s book Co-operation: Its Problems and Possibilities remains as relevant now as when the original volume was published in 1927. With razor like clarity, Enfield (1882-1935) a former Secretary of the Women’s Co-operative Guild, outlines the history of the co-operative movement and its radical potential to being peace and transform the world economy into one that runs on co-operative lines.
Believing that the real alternative to capitalism lays between state owner-ship and co-operation, it is time for Enfield, a forgotten figure, to once again speak for the co-operative movement. At a time when people are once again questioning long-term sustainability of a free market in which so much wealth is diverted to so few individuals and organisations, her thoughts ring true, and with a new wave of automation threatening long established working patterns, they can offer a potential guide for how co-operation might help write a future which is yet unwritten.
From Principle 5
Black riso print throughout; Cover is Context Natural 170gsm; inner pages are Context Natural 100gsm.
