Not to Nationalise, but to Rationalise? Cooperatives, Leadership and the State in the Irish Dairy Industry 1890–1932

Mo Moulton
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Mo Moulton: University of Birmingham, UK

Irish Economic and Social History, 2017, vol. 44, issue 1, 85-101

Abstract: The Irish cooperative movement in the dairy industry was driven from above, first by the philanthropic Irish Agricultural Organisation Society and then by the Irish Free State. Although the early cooperative movement has been linked with constructive unionism, this article highlights important continuities in the approach taken to cooperative creameries by the Irish Free State government in the 1920s. Using the problem of creamery management as a focus, it argues that the movement was unable to deliver on its stated goal of democratic empowerment of farmers. Instead, it was the means through which power was renegotiated between farmers, landlords and the state in the context of two crucial transitional moments.

Keywords: cooperation; dairy; management; agriculture (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2017
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DOI: 10.1177/0332489317718977

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