Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. This book provides extensive information about cooperatives and mutual organizations. A cooperative is a business organization owned and operated by a group of individuals for their mutual benefit. A mutual organization shares the same principle, though the members usually do not contribute to the capital of the company by direct investment, but derive their right to profits and votes through their customer relationship. Read about the types of cooperatives and the theories relating to these organizations, including cooperative federalism, distributism, owenism, and much more. Project Webster represents a new publishing paradigm, allowing disparate content sources to be curated into cohesive, relevant, and informative books. To date, this content has been curated from Wikipedia articles and images under Creative Commons licensing, although as Project Webster continues to increase in scope and dimension, more licensed and public domain content is being added. We believe books such as this represent a new and exciting lexicon in the sharing of human knowledge.
