Trace origin and growth of co-operative movement in the world.
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The earliest record of a cooperative comes from Fenwick, Scotland where, in March 14, 1761, in a barely furnished cottage local weavers manhandled a sack of oatmeal into John Walker's whitewashed front room and began selling the contents at a discount, forming the Fenwick Weavers' Society.
There are a plethera of records of cooperatives started out as small grassroots organisations in Western Europe, North America and Japan in the middle of the nineteenth century, however, it is the Rochdale Pioneers that are generally regarded as the prototype of the modern cooperative society and the founders of the Co-operative Movement in 1844.
The Rochdale Pioneers are regarded as the prototype of the modern co-operative society and the founders of the Cooperative Movement.