{"product_id":"9781987915952","title":"The Co-op Revolution","description":"We were undercapitalized, inexperienced, practiced democratic decision-making and some of us smoked dope occasionally. All elements that would make us grow as human beings and as business people. We ran a helluva show. In the spring of 1975, a free-spirited Jan DeGrass backpacked across Canada in search of adventure and greater meaning in life. When she arrived in Vancouver, she met a group of people committed to social change; together they reimagined the food industry in BC. In The Co-op Revolution: Vancouvers Search for Food Alternatives, author and journalist DeGrass writes about her journey as a founding member of the Collective Resource and Services Workers Co-op. Bounding to life during the heady, activist, grant-funded years of 19741980, the CRS Co-op became one of the most successful co-ops in BC and was committed to co-operation and worker ownership. While the decade of the seventies is remembered for its new wave of co-opsusually organized by a free-flowing collection of women and men in their twentiesCRS was unique in its success. Among its many accolades, it created the Tunnel Canary cannery, the Queenright Co-operative Beekeepers, Vancouvers popular Uprising Breads Bakery and a food wholesaler, which later became Horizon Distributors. The economic, political and social skyline of Vancouver was changing. For some, the co-op movement was about crushing capitalism; for others it was simply about buying cheap, wholesome food from people they trusted, and living in communal camaraderie. No matter the pursuit, co-operation was the answer.","brand":"Caitlin Press (CA)","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":65441552466269,"sku":null,"price":11.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1041\/3893\/2573\/files\/9781987915952.jpg?v=1789108766","url":"https:\/\/shop.gazellebookservices.co.uk\/products\/9781987915952","provider":"Gazelle Book Services","version":"1.0","type":"link"}