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The financial cooperative movement

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Coming of age in the late 1960s in the United States meant questioning the established order. For some of us, angry rejection of the war against Vietnam led to a reinterpretation of the world; like others of my generation, I came to see political conflict as an expression of the drive for corporate, capitalist domination.

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Rosenthal, C. (2013). The financial cooperative movement. In: Schultz, R. (eds) Creating Good Work. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137313522_11

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