What is it about?
Chronicle of the Governors’Association is a field research project investigating the sustainability of a so-called Institution for Collective Action. A co-operative Association is an expression of such an institute. By examining the functioning of a 110-year-old Co-operative sickness fund we have aimed to identify the qualities that have ensured the long-term existence of the Association.By means of counteraction to this form of progression a renewed interest has arisen for various forms of co-operative entrepreneurship.
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Why is it important?
The rise of the Participation Society and the economical crisis of 2008 are all determinants, which have sparked this renewed interest in the commonality. Despite this interest, the principles of self-governance and cooperation are currently no longer apparent in the collective social conscience. With the research project Chronicle of the Governors’Association we aim to contribute to safeguarding and propagating the original principles of the Society
Perspectives
With a delay of about 7 years, the Economical Crisis of 2008 incited the Association to become receptive for change, once again. New schemes for alternative impairment insurances, such as the Bread Fund, where being compared with the original objectives and the Association’s Heritage. Through the research project Chronicle of A Governors’Association we we have been able to make a significant contribution to the discussion about the heritage and the future of the Association and contributed to further research into the development of co-operative movement in a contemporary environment.
erik de jager
Foundation Reis van de Razzia (Journey of the Razzia)
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This page is a summary of: Chronicle of the Governors’ Association: an Investigation into the Resilience and Longevity of the Co-operative Structure of the Communal Sickness Fund ‘To Our Avail’, Research Data Journal for the Humanities and Social Sciences, May 2019, Brill,
DOI: 10.1163/24523666-00401004.
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