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Contents.

CHAPTER. PAGE.
I. The First Co-operativo Movement 1
II. The New Pioneers 9
III. Steps Toward Federation 17
IV. The Founding of the Society 25
V. First Years of Business 33
VI. Established at Balloon Street 41
VII. Forty Years Ago 50
VIII. First Years at Newcastle-on-Tyne 56
IX. The Making of the Bank 63
X. The Entry into Production 72
XI. The Attack on London 83
XII. WTiich Returns to General Affairs 92
XIII. Lean Years and Critical Days 102
XIV. Renewals of Strength 113
XV. The Story of the Shipping Department 126
XVI. Depots and Salerooms West and East 143
XVII. Constitutional and Mercantile 155
XVIII. The Development of Production 169
XIX. Last Years of Mitchell's Chairmanship 188
XX. Under a New President 204
XXI. A Century of Flour Milling 223
XXII. From Irlam to Pelaw 239
XXIII. Producing for Wear and for Use 258
XXIV. Boots, Mainly, and the Control of Industry 276
XXV. Creameries and Controversies 293
XXVI. In the New Century 314
XXVII. Co-operative Insurance in the Old Century and the New 331
XXVIII. The Society and its Employees 347
APPENDICES.
Biographical Index 375
The Chairman of the Society 394
List of Present Committee and Officers 396
Continuous Long-service Roll 400
First Plans for the C.W.S.—
1. The Plan of 1851 for a Wholesale Society 405
2. The Original Paper by Abraham Greenwood 407
A Comparison of the Cost of Food during Thirty Years 414
Diagrams Illustrating Economic History, 1860-1912 416
Statistics of Progress of the C.W.S. Banking Department 417
A Short Statistical History of the C.W.S 418
Grants and Donations since the Commencement of the Society 420
Bonus Schemes 421
Chronological Index to Principal Events 423
Genera] Index 43
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