Professor Yeo was Principal of Ruskin College, Oxford, 1989-97 and since then has been Chair of the Co-operative College and the Co-operative Heritage Trust in Manchester and Rochdale, engaging with and writing about the movement.Stephen began his adult life as a Labour Party Parliamentary candidate in the elections of 1964 and 1966. As a social historian, he is known for his work on association, cooperation, labour movements and religious and voluntary organisations. He taught at the University of Sussex for 25 years, and he was also active in Brighton's community politics.
"A great read. The Holyoake that emerges is a revelation!" - Nick Matthews, Chair Co-ops. UK. "A classic study of one of the co-operative movement's most successful nineteenth-century proselytisers." Professor Tony Webster, Professor of History Northumbria University. "I can only praise this account of a great, complex and authentic co-operator. It is going to be extraordinarily welcome." - Ed Mayo, Secretary General, Co-ops.UK. "This is a fine essay on a figure of central importance to the history of co-operation. It is not a new biography, but presents rather an essay in the excavation and application of ideas. As an exposition of modern co-operative thought it will attract attention from a wide readership."- Professor Gregory Claeys, Professor of the History of Political Thought, Royal Holloway, University of London. "I found this great work absorbing, educational, stimulating and provocative. Holyoake's writings, and his times are expertly mined, to convey a powerful sense of his 'character', his tone of voice, his commitments and his vision. It is beautifully written, passionate and erudite." - Dr. Gill Scott, Deputy Head, School of Humanities, University of Brighton. "The figure that emerges from this deeply committed work is that of an individual who regarded the 'art of association' as it was practiced by thousands of working-class co-operators as a stepping stone to a 'new order of life', an alternative religion that would dissolve the power of both capitalism and the state without the need for violent action."- Professor Peter Gurney, Professor of British Social History, University of Essex. "An eye opener... It is a fascinating and beautifully written labour of love: professional, rigorous and full of thought provoking material. " - Sir Graham Melmoth ,Chief Executive of the Co-operative Wholesale Society (CWS), 1996-2002. "A fabulous document: rich and full of diverse angles of Holyoake's life phases and different work foci, plus highlighting successes and real set backs. The thematic and mission of being in the business of making wrong and poverty impossible is so well set out... How little do co-operators really discuss this economic democracy question today! It is so fundamental for transition and transformation to revive this understanding and focus. Such fragments can become a new anti-politics. ..The way democracy has been niggardly allocated by the state and how this was spotted in the 1870s by Holyoake is so completely undiscussed today. Back again to economic democracy as a mission or what I like to call daily democracy like daily bread and part of everyone's life."- Pat Conaty, Research Fellow New Economics Foundation; Research Associate Co-ops.UK.
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