Solidarity cooperatives: the (hidden) origins of communitarian pluralism in the UK social enterprise movement

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A paper using the FairShares Association's model rules to recover the communitarian philosophical roots of 1970s social enterprise. The authors trace links between developments in UK social enterprise and solidarity cooperatives across continental Europe, Asia and the Americas, arguing that the communitarian origins of social enterprise are 'disturbingly obscured and hidden'. They propose the FairShares Model as a way to distribute wealth and power among social entrepreneurs, workers, service users and community investors, and contend that this pluralist turn — 'new cooperativism' — could transform labour and consumer rights. Abstract only was consulted.

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