The Co-Op Revolution: Vancouver\'s Search for Food Alternatives, Paperback/Jan Degrass - Caitlin Press

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Description"We were undercapitalized, inexperienced, practiced democratic decision-making and some of us smoked dope occasionally.
She received a national award for a business article that furthered Canadian co-operative literature, and.
For the past twenty-five years she has written in every genre, from sparkling arts news to exotic travel narrative to a cookbook of potluck recipes.
About the Author Jan De Grass writes in Sechelt, BC, where she is the Arts & Entertainment columnist for COAST REPORTER and editor of COAST LIFE magazine.
No matter the pursuit, co-operation was the answer.
For some, the Co-Op movement was about crushing capitalism; for others it was simply about buying cheap, wholesome Food from people they trusted and living in communal camaraderie.
The economic, political and social skyline of Vancouver was changing.
Among its many accolades, it created the Tunnel Canary cannery, the Queenright Co-operative Beekeepers, Vancouver\'s popular Uprising Breads Bakery and a Food wholesaler, which later became Horizon Distributors.
While the decade of the seventies is remembered for its new wave of co-ops--usually organized by a "free-flowing" collection of women and men in their twenties--CRS was unique in its success.
Bounding to life during the heady, activist, grant-funded years of 1974-1980, the CRS Co-Op became one of the most successful co-ops in BC and was committed to co-operation and worker ownership.
In The Co-Op Revolution: Vancouver\'s Search for Food Alternatives, author and journalist De Grass writes about her journey as a founding member of the Collective Resource and Services Workers\' Co-op.
When she arrived in Vancouver, she met a group of people committed to social change; together they re-imagined the Food industry in BC.
We ran a helluva show."In the spring of 1975, a free-spirited Jan De Grass backpacked across Canada in Search of adventure and greater meaning in life.
All elements that would make us grow as human beings and as business people.
Description"We were undercapitalized, inexperienced, practiced democratic decision-making and some of us smoked dope occasionally