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ISBN: 9780865719071-07

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The Food Co-op Waves

From: Grocery Story

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This chapter describes Black American and working-class consumer co-ops founded in the 1930s Great Depression, many of which, resembling conventional grocery stores, are still in operation while having transitioned to having middle class owner-customers. The rise in the late 1960s of counter-culturalist co-ops and the growth of organic, fair-trade, and local movements is described. Also decribed are food buying groups from the 1970s to the present as well as co-ops for low income communties who find themselves in "food deserts".

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John Steinman

Jon Steinman is the producer and host of Deconstructing Dinner, the internationally syndicated radio show and podcast (2006-2010) and streaming television series. Jon coordinates and curates the annual Deconstructing Dinner Film Festival and was an elected director from 2006-2016 of the Kootenay Co-op, Canada’s largest independent retail consumer food co-op, serving as Board President from 2014-2016. He lives in Nelson, BC.