Word: ops
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Died. Lord Feather, 68, salty, aggressive general secretary of Britain's Trades Union Congress (1969-73); of a stroke; in London. At 14, Victor Feather filled flour sacks in a grocery co-op to help support his family; at 15, he joined the shop assistants union and at 29 he became a TUC organizer in London. During his 37 years on the staff, Feather led some of the TUC's toughest negotiations. When Britain's Tory government in 1971 passed the Industrial Relations Act restricting union power, Feather made it largely inoperative by refusing to cooperate...
After McMahon proposed the co-op management plan, Hill suggested the tenants enter into a "partnership" with the real estate office next year. Under such a partnership, the tenants' representative would review the budget for Holden Green with Hill each month...
...tenants are still interested in co-op management, McMahon said, not primarily as a way of saving money, but as a "means to lessen the amount of time we waste in dealing with the Real Estate Department...
...op house similar conditions of repeated interaction with a small number of people produce similar conventions of formal blindness. Indeed at times members seem to behave as if they lived alone in the building in a state of gracious spaciousness. I am convinced that the knack of ignoring one's fellow man is a useful trait in an urban environment, one with which Americans have a good deal of trouble. Americans are always wanting to relate to everyone. How else can we explain the incredible hostility created by the appearance of long hair styles back in the sixties? In Europe...
...op the chain of causality seems to operate in the other direction. A sense of solidarity and in-group specialness must be built up each year so that people will cooperate with one another in their domestic chores and so that social pressure can be put upon those who do not perform up to standard. We have our little rituals for achieving these ends too, such as banquets and parties. What co-op house members often fail to realize is that we simultaneously and inevitably build a certain aloofness to outsiders. Members detest the suggestion that the co-op...