This file contains 2 folders of a range of documents including the following examples:
Correspondence, meeting agendas and notes, financial statements and newsletters relating to the operations of ICOM, ICOF and the SCDC
Conference programmes & reports
Discussion papers on the state of the co-operative movement
Printed pamphlet ICOF information for loan applicants
Printed pamphlet featuring three workers co-ops that were founded in nineteenth century: Equity Shoes (Leicester); Walsall Locks; Leicester Printers
Open University, Co-operatives Research Unit: correspondence, agendas and joining forms for 'Commonwork Seminars – The role of advisor to Co-operatives' September 1979
SCDC Clydeside Co-operatives Development Project: description of project and job description for two development officer posts; press release for launch of project, August 1979
Constitution, general assembly and miscellaneous papers of COMMACT, 1988-1999
Third Working for Common Wealth Conference presentations, Malaysia, April 1992
European COMMACT conferences and symposium, 1992-1993
Fourth Working for Common Wealth Conference presentations, Northern Ireland, September 1996
Conference, general assembly and work programme papers of COMMACT, 1996-2005
COMMACT (Commonwealth Association for Local Action and Economic Development) was established in 1990 by practitioners of local development organisations, alternative trading organisations and related institutions as a forum for exchange of experience and promote activity in the area of social and economic development at local level. The registered business address was Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia and membership was open to individuals and organisations in the field of people-centred development.
Industrial co-operatives related articles, reports and publications, 1973-1979
Scottish Co-operative Development Committee (SCDC) course articles, c1994
An industrial co-operative is an enterprise owned and controlled by the people who work in it. The members of the co-operative decide between themselves in a democratic way what to do and how to organise the work.