the rochdale pioneers
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The Rochdale Pioneers
The Rochdale Pioneers – formation
Hungry FortiesUnemploymentPovertyFood adulterationChartism collapsing
The Rochdale Pioneers – formation
• Not the first co-operative society• Learning from earlier
experience• Learning from thinkers like
– Robert Owen – William King– George Jacob Holyoake
• Developing a workable model• Developing the co-operative
principles
The Rochdale Pioneers – formation
The Rochdale Pioneers – formation
First meeting 11 August 1844Decision to collect money to enable opening of shop£28 saved (£1 shareholding)
Insert section of film outside the shop
The Rochdale Pioneers – formation
Difficulties in finding premisesProviding shop fittingsProblems in getting supplies of stockFirst night of trade
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The Rochdale Pioneers
The Rochdale Pioneers - objectives
THE objects and plans of this Society are to form arrangements for the pecuniary benefit, and the improvement of the social and domestic condition of its members, by raising a sufficient amount of capital in shares of one pound each, to bring into operation the following plans and arrangements.
• The establishment of a store for the sale of provision and clothing, &c.
• The building, purchasing or erecting a number of houses, in which those members desiring to assist each other in improving their domestic and social condition may reside.
The Rochdale Pioneers - objectives
The Rochdale Pioneers - objectives
• As a further benefit and security to the members of this society, the society shall purchase or rent an estate or estates of land, which shall be cultivated by the members who may be out of employment, or whose labour may be badly remunerated.
The Rochdale Pioneers - objectives
• That for the promotion of sobriety a Temperance Hotel be opened in one of the society's houses, as soon as convenient.
The Rochdale Pioneers - objectives
• That as soon as practicable, this society shall proceed to arrange the powers of production, distribution, education, and government, or in other words to establish a self-supporting home-colony of united interests, or assist other societies in establishing such colonies.
Rochdale Principles
• Open Membership• Democratic Control• Distribution of Surplus in Proportion to Trade• Payment of Limited Interest on Capital• Political and Religious Neutrality• Cash Trading• Promotion of Education
• NB. The principle ‘Concern for community’ was added when these were reviewed by the ICA in the 1960’s
The Rochdale Pioneers – education
1849 First Reading RoomCommitment to educationDevelopment of LibraryDevelopment of Education DepartmentCourses
LanguagesArtsSciences
Rochdale Equitable Pioneers Society Library Catalogue 1868
The Rochdale Pioneers – development
Expansion of tradeTwo evenings a week for first three monthsFive evenings a weekNew trades and departmentsDraperyButcheryTeaWholesaling
The Rochdale Pioneers – development
Trade Membership Surplus (Profit)
1845 £710 74 £22
1848 £2,276 140 £118
1849 (after collapse of Rochdale Savings Bank)
£6,612 390 £561
The Rochdale Pioneers – development
• Branch store developments from 1856
• 1857 George Jacob Holyoake’s “History of the Rochdale Pioneers”
• 1861 Rochdale Land and Pioneer Company
• 1862 Impact of Cotton Famine• Opening of new central premises
1867• By 1880 membership over 10,000
Influence of the Pioneers
Formation of other co-operative societies
1881547,000 members in 971 societies19001.7 million members in 1,439 societiesFormation of secondary or federal co-operatives
Co-operative Wholesale Society
Initial meeting 25 December 1860Formed 1863 as North of England
Co-operative Wholesale SocietyRochdale Pioneers as members of first committeeWilliam CooperJames SmithiesAbraham GreenwoodRented offices in Manchester withtwo men and a boy
Co-operative Wholesale Society
1868 first premises built1868 first depot – Ireland1872 began banking (now
The Co-operative Bank)1873 manufacturing of biscuits and shoes1878 purchase of first ship1903 purchase of first tea plantations
The Rochdale Pioneers – formation
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