Flashcards: Cooperatives

A kolkhoz (Russian: колхо́з; IPA: [kɐˈlxos] , Ukrainian: колгосп, kolhosp, Russian plural kolkhozy, anglicized plural kolkhozes) was a form of collective farm in the Soviet Union.

Il manifesto is an Italian language daily newspaper published in Rome, Italy.

Moshav (Hebrew: מוֹשָׁב‎‎, plural מוֹשָׁבִים moshavim, lit. settlement, village) is a type of Israeli town or settlement, in particular a type of cooperative agricultural community of individual farms pioneered by the Labour Zionists during the second wave of aliyah.

Egged Israel Transport Cooperative Society Ltd (Hebrew: אֶגֶד), a cooperative owned by its members, is the largest transit bus company in Israel.

Cooperation (sometimes written as coöperation or co-operation) is the process of groups of organisms working or acting together for common or mutual benefit, as opposed to working in competition for selfish benefit.

Belgrade Cooperative (Serbian: Београдска задруга / Beogradska zadruga) is a cooperative bank founded in 1882 to promote savings and support small enterprises, craftspeople and the poor of Belgrade.

Die Tageszeitung (English: “The daily newspaper”, often displayed as die tageszeitung and commonly referred to as taz), was founded in 1978 in Berlin.

A kibbutz (Hebrew: קִבּוּץ / קיבוץ, lit. "gathering, clustering"; plural kibbutzim קִבּוּצִים / קיבוצים) is a collective community in Israel that was traditionally based on agriculture.

Central Union of Consumer Associations of Ukraine (Ukoopspilka) (Ukrainian: Центральна спілка споживчих товариств України (Укоопспілка)) is a non-profit organization of Ukraine that serves as a representative and protects interests of consumer associations, societies and their members in respective state and international organizations.

A credit union is a member-owned financial cooperative, democratically controlled by its members, and operated for the purpose of promoting thrift, providing credit at competitive rates, and providing other financial services to its members.

In Mexican system of government, an ejido (Spanish pronunciation: [eˈxiðo], from Latin exitum) is an area of communal land used for agriculture, on which community members individually farm designated parcels and collectively maintain communal holdings.

The International Co-operative Alliance (ICA) is a non-governmental co-operative federation or, more precisely, a co-operative union representing co-operatives and the co-operative movement worldwide.

WorldCat is a union catalog that itemizes the collections of 72,000 libraries in 170 countries and territories that participate in the Online Computer Library Center (OCLC) global cooperative.

Coop Himmelb(l)au (est. 1968) is a cooperative architectural design firm primarily located in Vienna, Austria, and which also maintains offices in Los Angeles, United States, and Guadalajara, Mexico.

The Desjardins Group (or Mouvement des caisses Desjardins in French) is the largest association of credit unions in North America.

The JAK Members Bank, or JAK Medlemsbank, is a cooperative, member-owned financial institution based in Skövde, Sweden, and based on a concept that arose in Denmark in 1931.

Collective farming and communal farming are various types of agricultural production in which multiple farmers run their holdings as a joint enterprise.

Building co-operatives are co-operative housing corporations where individuals or families work together to directly construct their own homes in a cooperative fashion.

Consumer cooperatives are enterprises owned by consumers and managed democratically which aim at fulfilling the needs and aspirations of their members.

A benefit society, fraternal benefit society or fraternal benefit order is a society, an organization or a voluntary association formed to provide mutual aid, benefit, for instance insurance for relief from sundry difficulties.

Tagum Cooperative is one of the largest cooperatives in Mindanao as it is classified by the Cooperative Development Authority (CDA) of the Philippines as a large cooperative .

Lakeland Dairies Group is an Irish dairy co-operative based in Killeshandra, County Cavan, Ireland.

For All the People: Uncovering the Hidden History of Cooperation, Cooperative Movements, and Communalism in America is a non-fiction book by John Curl which "methodically and authoritatively traces the hidden history of cooperatives, cooperation and communalism in US history.

The Irish Agricultural Organisation Society (IAOS) was an agricultural association in Ireland which advocated, and helped to organise, agricultural cooperativism.

The Irish Co-operative Organisation Society (ICOS) is a cooperative organisation in the Republic of Ireland.

The Nepal Multipurpose Cooperative Society Ltd.

The European Cooperative Society (SCE, for Latin societas cooperativa Europaea) is, in company law, a European co-operative type of company, established in 2006 and related to the European Company.

Embega, S. Coop. was founded in 1971 by a group of workers from the former household appliance company Agni (today BSH Bosch und Siemens Hausgeräte GmbH), on the banks of Ega river, in Estella (Navarra, Spain).

The Korean Publishers Cooperative was established in 1958.

Northcountry Cooperative Development Fund (NCDF) is a cooperatively owned community-development loan fund committed to fostering economic democracy by investing in cooperative enterprises.

Hy-Vee /ˌhaɪˈviː/ is an employee-owned chain of more than 240 supermarkets located throughout the Midwestern United States in Iowa, Illinois, Kansas, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, South Dakota and Wisconsin.

SSQ Financial Group is a mutual diversified financial institution founded in 1944 in Quebec, Canada, which offers insurance and investment products.

An employee stock ownership plan (ESOP) is an employee-owner program that provides a company's workforce with an ownership interest in the company.

Södra Skogsägarna, trading as Södra, is a forestry cooperative based in Växjö, Sweden.

Lister Housing Co-operative is a 185 flat housing cooperative and registered social landlord in Edinburgh's Old Town.

Coöperatieve Inkoop Vereniging Superunie B.

The Rigler and Deutsch Index of Recorded Sound, also known as the Rigler Deutsch Index, is a union catalog collocation of the U.

Unico Banking Group is a partnership of eight European co-operative banks founded in 1977.

The Hefame Group is a Spanish cooperative which distributes pharmaceutical products.

Minicomics Co-ops are entities for trading and promoting small press comics and fanzines.

Capital and the Debt Trap is a research monograph by Claudia Sanchez Bajo and Bruno Roelants.

Cooperative federalism is a school of thought in the field of cooperative economics.

Co-op Legal Services is a wholly owned subsidiary of The Co-operative Group in the United Kingdom.

The Co-operative Federal Retail and Trading Services is the central buying group for co-operative retail societies in the United Kingdom.

The Co-operative Travel Trading Group (or CTTG) was the central buying group for co-operative travel agents in the United Kingdom.

Coca Braun (stylized as coca braun) is an international photographic cooperative owned by its photographer-members, with offices located in Amsterdam, Munich and Berlin.

SRT Communications (formerly Souris River Telecommunications) is the largest telecommunications cooperative in North Dakota, serving over 50,000 people with telephone, wireless phone, broadband Internet, security systems, and cable tv services.

ACDI/VOCA is a private, international development nonprofit organization based in Washington, D.

The California and Nevada Credit Union Leagues are the trade association for credit unions in those states.

Cooperative Business New Zealand brings together New Zealand's cooperative and mutual businesses in a not-for-profit incorporated society which provides support to its members, raises the profile and awareness of cooperative and mutual enterprise, and promotes the cooperative business model.

The "Co-operative Society Manufacturing of Portland Cement La Cruz Azul C.