Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 29. Chapters: Co-operatives UK, Mondragon Corporation, List of co-operative federations, Arctic Co-operatives Limited, North American Students of Cooperation, African Confederation of Co-operative Savings and Credit Associations, CICOPA, Cooperative federation, Federated Co-operatives, International Co-operative Alliance, Legacoop, United States Federation of Worker Cooperatives, Desjardins Group, World Council of Credit Unions, Ontario Co-operative Association, Corporate credit union, Canadian Co-operative Association, Deutscher Genossenschafts-und Raiffeisenverband, Kooperativa Forbundet, Seikatsu Club Consumers' Co-operative Union, Federation of Egalitarian Communities, Credit Union Central of Canada, Manitoba Cooperative Association, Western Bridge Corporate Federal Credit Union, National Cooperative Business Association, Irish League of Credit Unions, Credit union league, Network of Bay Area Worker Cooperatives, Zen-Noh, Universal Cooperatives, Kilimanjaro Native Cooperative Union, National Cooperative Grocers Association, Radical Routes, National Mutual Insurance Federation of Agricultural Cooperatives, Zentralverband der deutschen Konsumgenossenschaften, Confederacion Espanola de Cooperativas de Trabajo Asociado. Excerpt: Co-operatives UK is "the central membership organisation for co-operative enterprise throughout the UK," a co-operative federation founded in 1870 as the Co-operative Central Board, before changing its name to the Co-operative Union and finally becoming Co-operatives UK following its merger with the Industrial Common Ownership Movement (ICOM) in 2002. Historically associated with the consumer co-operatives, the merger broadened its scope to include worker co-operatives and it now exists to support and promote the values of the co-operative movement throughout the UK. During its history, it has been respon...