TRANSLATED FROM THE FRENCH BY THE STAFF OF THE CO-OPERATIVE REFERENCE LIBRARY, DUBLIN. WITH AN INTRODUCTION AND SUPPLEMENT ARY CHAPTER BY JAMES PETER WARBASSE. EDITED IN THE UNITED STATES BY CEDRIC LONG CO-OPERATIVE SOCIETIES BY CHARLES GIDE " Professor of Political Economy in the Faculty of Laws, University of Paris The excellent translation of Professor Gide's "Les Sociétés Coopératives de consommation" which follows is the result of the labors of the staff of the Co-operative Reference Library, Dublin, Ireland. The present editor, in preparing the book for an American public, has, by permission of the fellow-co-operators in Dublin, eliminated such of the English footnotes as were of interest principally to British readers or has incorporated them in his own. has also moved up into the text many of Professor Gide's notes added by him at the time of the translation into English. Therefore at present there are only the two kinds of footnotes: those of the original author and those of the American editor. He Without the painstaking work of the translators and those who assisted them, this American edition would probably not have been undertaken at this time. Without Professor Gide's help in reading through the proofs and making several valuable suggestions, the book would not have the contemporary value it now possesses. Finally, Dr. Warbasse, in contributing a preface and a chapter on "Co-operation in the United States," has made this book, always indispensible to the student of European Co-operation, an essential to those who are studying the Co-operative Movement in the United States. The present editor is honoured in being able to append a few additional American notes and to prepare this edition for the publisher. CEDRIC LONG V 851833 |