22. Consumerism-Cooperatives,, 1928-1980

Summary: Documents CR's interest in the Cooperative movement in the United States and abroad mostly during the 1930s. Includes correspondence, notes, news clippings, a project file, catalogs of sale items, and newsletters. Also includes materials concerning J.B. Matthews writings and research about Co-ops in 1936. Subjects include general cooperatives, consumers cooperatives, cooperative marketing, radical associations of cooperatives, Consumers' Mail Order Cooperative Inc., Cooperative Distributors Inc., the Cooperative League of the U.S.A. and foreign cooperatives.