A SURVEY OF THE FACTORS AFFECTING THE GROWTH OF CO-OPERATIVE SOCIETY IN ENUGU METROPOLIS (A CASE STUDY OF ENUGU STATE COOPERATIVE SOCIETIES)

A SURVEY OF THE FACTORS AFFECTING THE GROWTH OF CO-OPERATIVE SOCIETY IN ENUGU METROPOLIS (A CASE STUDY OF ENUGU STATE COOPERATIVE SOCIETIES)

CHAPTER ONE

1.0    INTRODUCTION

It is not easy to state exactly when cooperative started, what is known is that there were traces of cooperative related organization in the ancient Egypt as early as 3600BC.  There were also recorded of cooperative ideas in the ancient Greek, Roman and Chinese cultures.  During the middle ages, cooperative ideas were in the form of guilds with the aims of uniting workers to meet there common needs.  During the 13^th century, the first farmers cooperative were recorded when a group of sip diary farmer made Cheese cooperatively. In the new world, early Americans also experimented with cooperative.  The colonist worked jointly on many self survival projects.

1.1    BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY

There have always been instance in the history of human society where individuals have come together to achieve certain aims in cooperative with others.  In most tribal societies, this has been  a common features. However, these common effect were usually directed at fulfilling a certain temporary need.  Organization cooperative business ventures of a mere permanent character were comparatively rare through some example can be found throughout history in the middle ages as well as in classical times.

Form creation, man had always shown a sign of working together. The Igbo man had a proverb which buttress this more, “when a man is in difficulty, he seeks for help from another but when an animal is, it cannot turn to another. In rural areas, small farmers become increasing indebted to various money tenders.  These money lenders exploited the fact that the farmer who had loved mere or less at subsistence level was now in desperate need of money to buy supplies for the culturaion of cash crops, to buy mere modern equipment, and to pay taxes, which formerly had been collected in kind. The resulting social unrest and insecurity provided a fertile ground for ideas for a new soci1al and economic orders.  The rise and expansion of the modern cooperative movement has it roots in the far reaching economic, social and political changes which took place in Europe in the café eighteenth and all through the nineteeth century, especially the revolution and the liberation of the pleasantly from the farmer feudalistic system.

A SURVEY OF THE FACTORS AFFECTING THE GROWTH OF CO-OPERATIVE SOCIETY IN ENUGU METROPOLIS (A CASE STUDY OF ENUGU STATE COOPERATIVE SOCIETIES)