New developments in the co-operative movement over the past 25 years are reflected in this considerably revised and updated edition of a popular and useful ILO publication. The original edition, which drew on the experience of both countries where cooperatives had long been established and those where they were still in earlier stages of development, was a practical handbook dealing with the day-to-day management and administration of co-operative societies. The new edition, while respecting the idea and structure of the original work, looks more closely at current problems of management and a.