Excerpt from Foundations: A Study in the Ethics and Economics of the Co-Operative Movement: Prepared at the Request of the Co-Operative Congress Held at Gloucester in April, 1879 In the Preface the figures have been brought up to date, as has also the Constitution of the Central Board. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.