Question

Give short notes on producer co operative society

Answer 1

a kind of cooperative uniting small-scale producers (artisans and handicraft workers) for joint production of goods and rendering of services.

Producers’ cooperatives originated in France and Germany in the middle of the 19th century. In the late 19th and early 20th centuries they grew in other capitalist countries. However, today in capitalist countries the producers’ cooperatives are less common than consumers’ cooperatives, credit unions, and agricultural cooperatives. In the late 1950’s, Great Britain had 30 producers’ cooperatives with a membership of 11,600; France had 680 such cooperatives.

In Russia before the Great October Socialist Revolution, a wide range of consumers’ goods was produced by the artisan and handicraft industry. The artisans and craftsmen produced most of the goods in such sectors as shoemaking, the making of fur coats and mittens, cooperage, felting, and tailoring, as well as many luxury items.

After the victory of the October Socialist Revolution, the producers’ cooperative became the easiest and most accessible way to socialism for the artisans and craftsmen. From 1918 to 1920 the first steps were taken to organize small-scale commodity producers into cooperatives. On Jan. 1, 1919, there were 780 producers’ artels. With the end of the Civil War and the transition to peacetime economic construction, the Soviet state promoted the rapid growth of cooperatives for artisans and craftsmen: on Oct. 1, 1923, 4,952 cooperatives in the handicraft industry were already organized; this number grew to 8,641 in 1925 and 14,811 in late 1933. During the second five-year plan (1933–37) the process of involving craftsmen in cooperatives was completed. On Jan. 1, 1941, there were 25,600 producers’ cooperatives, with a membership of 2.6 million.