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    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

Open Daily: 10am - 10pm | Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm
3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
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Storefront Revolution: Food Co-ops and the Counterculture

Storefront Revolution: Food Co-ops and the Counterculture

Cox, Craig

Paperback

Series: Perspectives on the Sixties

EconomicsGeneral SociologyGeneral World History

ISBN10: 0813521025
ISBN13: 9780813521022
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Published: Aug 1 1994
Pages: 170
Weight: 0.59
Height: 0.41 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

In the 1960s, the cooperative networks of food stores, restaurants, bakeries, bookstores, and housing alternatives were part counterculture, part social experiment, part economic utopia, and part revolutionary political statement. The co-ops gave activists a place where they could both express themselves and accomplish at least some small-scale changes. By the mid-1970s, dozens of food co-ops and other consumer- and work-owned enterprises were operating throughout the Twin Cities, and an alternative economic network - with a People's Warehouse at its hub - was beginning to transform the economic landscape of the metropolitan Minneapolis-St. Paul area.

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