A still further trend in the cooperative development is the extension of the movement into new lines of business.  To this extent the failure of cooperative grocery stores has had a beneficial effect since it has forced groups to undertake different kinds of cooperative business.  In New York City at the present time cooperatives are engaged in such diverse business as that of restaurants, cafeterias, bakeries, coal associations, pool rooms, printing establishments, meat stores and laundries.  This means that the cooperatives are not following tradition but are thinking for themselves and are selecting that enterprise which will serve them most effectively.  In going into these businesses where profits are greatest they are not only prospering themselves but they are performing one of their most legitimate functions, that of protecting the consumer from extortionate profits.

BIBLIOGRAPHY

Books

  Bubnoff, J.V.  The Cooperative Movement in Russia. 162 p.  Manchester,
  1917.

  Faber, Harold.  Cooperation in Danish Agriculture. 176 p.  London, 1918.

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  Howe, Frederick C. Denmark, A Cooperative Commonwealth. 203 p.  New
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  Johns Hopkins University Studies, Vol.  VI.  History of Cooperation in
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  Nicholson, Isa.  Our Story. 80 p.  Manchester, 1918.

  Powell, G. Harold.  Cooperation in Agriculture. 327 p.  New York,
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  Redfern, Percy.  The Story of the Cooperative Wholesale Society. 439 p. 
  Manchester, 1913.

  Redfern, Percy.  The Consumer’s Place in Society. 107 p.  Manchester,
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  Smith-Gordon and Staples.  Rural Reconstruction in Ireland. 279 p. 
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  [A] Sonnischsen, Albert.  Consumers’ Cooperation. 223 p.  New York,
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  [A] Webb, Catherine.  Industrial Cooperation. 278 p.  Manchester, 1917.

  [A] Webb, Beatrice and Sidney.  The Consumers’ Cooperative Movement.
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  [A] Woolf, Leonard.  Cooperation and the Future of Industry. 141 p. 
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  Woolf, Leonard.  Socialism and Cooperation. 129 p.  London, 1921.

  Transactions of American Cooperative Convention.  New York,
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  People’s Year Book, Annual of the English and Scottish Wholesale
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[Footnote A:  Best books on the subject.]