SOSC 1341 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Skill, Peter Senge

• School: York University
• Department: Social Science
• Course: SOSC 1341
• Professor: Stephan Dobson

Document Summary

A co-operative is a self-help business, owned and democratically controlled by the people who use its services and shares its beneits. (2005, p 10) this is the deinition of a co-operative and is spoken highly throughout. From the cradle to retirement and beyond, in helping ourselves by robert. In this read it discusses diferent stories that co- operatives have succeeded in as well as the diferent co-operatives that are out there in the world. Basically what this means, is, people come together as a community and pool their resources or skills together, so they can beneit from one another. Whoever is involved in the co-operative are involved with the beneits they get from the co-operative. For example, a consumer co-operative buy everything in bulk so, they save money, but still have enough to provide for the members. This co-operative provides secure jobs, protects from the local government, protects the environment and safeguards cultural heritage, (2005, p 22).