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A total of 15 cooperative housekeeping developments were erected in England between 1874 and 1925, and although the last of their communal functions disappeared in 1976, at least ten of the developments are still in use as housing (see Table 1). Many more developments were proposed,and the principles of cooperative housekeeping provoked much discussion in the press, both of cooperative homes and conventional housekeeping. Earlier chapters have detailed the efforts of pioneers of the cooperative housekeeping movement to propagate their form of domestic revolution, and it remains to assess the impact of cooperative homes on English house design and domestic life. A total of 15 experimental homes built in just over half a century does not immediately appear to constitute any form of revolution.
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Pearson, L.F. (1988). The Rise and Fall of the Cooperative Housekeeping Movement. In: The Architectural and Social History of Cooperative Living. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-19122-2_10
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