Storefront Revolution: Food Co-ops and the Counterculture - Paperback
by Craig Cox
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Availability:In StockContributor:Craig CoxSeries:Perspectives on the SixtiesPublish date:1994-08-01Pages:170
Language:EnglishPublisher:Rutgers University PressISBN-13:9780813521022ISBN-10:813521025UPC:9780813521022Book Category:Business & Economics, Social Science, HistoryBook Subcategory:Economics, Sociology, Social HistorySize:9.00 x 6.00 x 0.41 inchesWeight:0.5908Product ID:SC9VC9723A
Storefront Revolution: Food Co-ops and the Counterculture
In the 1960s, the cooperative networks of food stores, restaurants, bakeries, bookstores, and housing alternatives were part counterculture, part social experiment, part economic utopia, and part revolutionary political statement. The co-ops gave activists a place where they could both express themselves and accomplish at least some small-scale changes. By the mid-1970s, dozens of food co-ops an...
Series: Perspectives on the Sixties
Language:EnglishPublisher:Rutgers University PressISBN-13:9780813521022ISBN-10:813521025UPC:9780813521022Book Category:Business & Economics, Social Science, HistoryBook Subcategory:Economics, Sociology, Social HistorySize:9.00 x 6.00 x 0.41 inchesWeight:0.5908Product ID:SC9VC9723A
Craig Cox, a journalist who was active in the co-op movement, here provides the first book to look at food co-ops during the 1960s and 1970s. He presents a dramatic story of hope and conflict within the Minneapolis network, one of the largest co-op structures in the country. His "view from the front" of the "Co-op War" that ensued between those who wanted personal liberation through the movement...
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
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