Co-op success.Re The return of the co-op (NI 368): One of the world's most successful and extensive experiments with co-ops is in the province of Emilia Romagna in Italy. The Communist Party Communist party, in China Communist party, in China, ruling party of the world's most populous nation since 1949 and most important Communist party in the world since the disintegration of the USSR in 1991. has been in office in the province since the Second World War. Seeing how Communism had gotten stalled stall 1 n. 1. A compartment for one domestic animal in a barn or shed. 2. a. A booth, cubicle, or stand used by a vendor, as at a market. b. on the path to democracy and the 'dictatorship of the proletariat' in Soviet Russia, Emilia Romagna's Communists decided they would go for the real thing: they made it easy to form co-ops. And their tradition of municipal republicanism meant that the co-ops were not just businesses, but along with the Government attended to the social and training needs of the workers and of the community. Now in a region with a population of about four million, there are 90,000 businesses (one for every 45 residents or so!). Roughly a sixth of them are co-ops, including two of the five largest. Emilia Romagna is the most prosperous region in Italy and one of the ten most prosperous in Europe. The co-ops operate in retail, construction, agricultural production, housing, manufacturing and social services social services Noun, pl welfare services provided by local authorities or a state agency for people with particular social needs social services npl → servicios mpl sociales . Stoney ston·ey adj. Variant of stony. Bird Mount Vernon Mount Vernon, estate, United States Mount Vernon, NE Va., overlooking the Potomac River near Alexandria, S of Washington, D.C.; home of George Washington from 1747 until his death in 1799. , US |
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