New methodologies for the study of the commuting: the use of administrative records in the mobility of the students in Catalonia

Abstract

After the birth of the consumer cooperative in the mid- nineteenth century in Rochdale, this associations spread quickly across Western Europe. In this paper we will analyze how this process was in Spain, in order to put forward some initial results on the following questions: the chronological and geographical development of the consumer cooperative, its ideological orientation, the evolutiand management mechanisms, and the effect these cooperatives had in terms.