Who is the Father of Modern Cooperative Movement?
By Balaji
Updated on: February 17th, 2023
Robert Owen is considered the Father of the Modern Cooperative Movement. He was a firm believer in providing his employees with a secure setting where they could pursue their own and their families educational goals. In the 1800s, he successfully applied these concepts in the cotton mills of New Lanark, Scotland, and prospered.
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1. Father of Modern Cooperative Movement
Father of Modern Cooperative Movement
An autonomous association of individuals joined voluntarily to fulfilll their shared social, economic, and cultural needs and aspirations through a jointly owned and democratically controlled enterprise is what the International Cooperative Alliance (ICA) defines as a cooperative. The following are India’s constitutional provisions regarding cooperatives:
- The 97th Amendment Act, 2011 added a new Part IXB related to the cooperatives working in India.
- It enables citizens to form cooperatives by giving them the status of the fundamental rights of citizens.
The cotton mills in New Lanark, Scotland, successfully implemented these concepts. The first cooperative store was established in this location. As a result of its success, he got the idea to create “villages of cooperation,” where workers would work to lift themselves out of poverty by producing their own food, and clothing and eventually ruling themselves.
In Scotland’s Orbiston and the United States New Harmony, he attempted to find similar communities, but both communities failed.
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