Journal of Siberian Federal University. Humanities & Social Sciences: Cooperators in the Township Court: on the Issue of Business Models of Siberian Butter-Making in the Early 20th Century

Journal of Siberian Federal University. Humanities & Social Sciences / Cooperators in the Township Court: on the Issue of Business Models of Siberian Butter-Making in the Early 20th Century

Issue: Journal of Siberian Federal University. Humanities & Social Sciences. 2023 16 (12)
Authors: Kirillov, Alexey K.
Contact information: Kirillov, Alexey K.: Institute of History SB RAS Novosibirsk, Russian Federation;
Keywords: late imperial Russia; cooperative studies; economic history; siberian studies
Abstract: Rarely used sources – records of township courts – help the author to reveal a business model used by Siberian butter producers of the late Russian empire period. The author brings to close consideration decisions of Tulinskoye township court discovered recently in the regional archive of Novosibirsk. Information from court records lets the author establish two facts previously unknown. 1) The practical work of Siberian butter-making cooperation was accompanied by numerous conflicts between cooperative organizers and ordinary members; 2) The reason for these conflicts was the organizers’ desire to fasten local milk deliverers to certain butter-making factories through the system of contracts and penalties. These facts contradict to the usual arrangement of cooperatives of the early 20th century. The conclusion says that Siberian butter-producing artels were in fact private businesses disguised as cooperatives in order to have legal opportunity to get hold of some part of milk market and thus avoid competition for raw materials
Pages: 2104–2112
EDN: XNROHL
Paper at repository of SibFU: https://elib.sfu-kras.ru/handle/2311/152371