Excerpt from Co-Operative Production, Vol. 1 The history of the co-operative movement is the history of a movement which has had, in many parts of the country, few chroniclers. When the social and economic history of the nineteenth century has to be written, the student will often be at a loss to explain the associated industrial efforts of working men in this country by means of those scanty records of vigorous enterprise and disastrous failure which have been or can be prepared. For the men who laid the foundations of co-operative work in this country were men not of words but of deeds. The means at their disposal for the acquisition of knowledge were so few, their hours of labour often so long, that they had neither the power nor the opportunity of leaving any written record of the work of their lives. Much which we would have gladly known has finally disappeared, but the story which Mr. Benjamin Jones unfolds is full of interest to those who can even imperfectly realize, in imagination, the use that some of these pioneers made of their opportunities. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books.

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