Co-operative notes

摘要

The Employee Ownership Association has been a major influence behind the growing interest in mutu-als and employee ownership in recent years. Founded in 1979, with the help of the John Lewis Partnership, and international polymers manufacturer, Scott Bader, and other companies, the association was originally established as a consultancy limited by guarantee, known as fob Ownership Ltd (JOL). The organisation was the brainchild of journalist, Robert Oakeshott, who died in June this year, aged 77, but who championed the cause of worker cooperatives. His book entitled Jobs And Fairness is generally acknowledged as the definitive study on employee ownership in the UK and overseas. Educated at Tonbridge School, Kent, Mr Oakeshott won an exhibition to BaHiol College, Oxford, where he studied classics, and graduated in 1957. His career as a journalist started on the Sundetkmd Echo, and he later moved to the Financial Times.