COOPERATIVES AND DECENT WORK - The Kerala Experience - Deliberations at the

COOPERATIVES AND DECENT WORK The Kerala Experience The focus on the Kerala experience locates itself to the social, political and economic context particular to the history of the state, which is in many ways conducive to the growth of such enterprises. [...] The instance of Kerala cooperatives opened a dialogue into the mosaic of broader contexts, challenges and successes of such enterprises across the country including a discussion on the efficiency of cooperatives (both in Kerala and other states) and outlining the reasons for the same, and highlighting the vulnerabilities of the labour force across the intersectionality of gender, caste, communal,. [...] The International Cooperative Alliance is the global steward of the Statement on the Cooperative Identity as well as the Values and Principles of the cooperative movement. [...] In 1995, the ICA adopted the revised Statement on the Cooperative Identity4, which contains the definition of a cooperative, the values of cooperatives, and the seven cooperative principles. [...] But the dissolution of the Kerala government by the then Congress government at the centre hindered the swift fulfilment of the further two demands.