ITALY - CO-OPERATION AND ASSOCIATION 



minished by twenty (i6 per cent.), be excluded, those of every other form 

 are seen to have increased largely — the building societies by 98.4 per cent ; 

 those of production and labour by 60.8 per cent. ; those of consumption 

 by 37-1 per cent. ; and the agricultural societies by 23.4 per cent. 



If the co-operative societies be distributed geographically the following 

 comparison between 1915 and 1910 is obtained. 



Table I. — Local Distribution of co-operative societies. 



Co-operative societies 



Consump- 

 tion 



Aaricultural 



Production 

 and labour 



Building 



Piedmont 



I^igtiria 



Lombardy 



Venetia 



Emilia and Romagna , 



Tuscany 



Marches 



Umbria 



Latium 



Abruzzi and Molise. . 



Campania 



Apulia 



Basilicata 



Calabria 



Sicily 



Sardinia 



277 



105 

 704 

 191 

 338 



358 

 III 



56 

 28 



30 

 47 

 40 



6 

 42 

 63 

 12 



484 

 143 

 157 

 267 



105 

 38 

 16 

 32 

 35 

 30 

 2 

 28 



53 

 6 



95 



27 



224 



95 

 216 



42 

 26 

 10 



65 

 21 



53 

 64 

 10 



27 



145 

 22 



84 

 22 



140 

 84 



214 

 38 

 22 

 6 

 61 

 II 

 55 

 43 

 II 

 20 



105 

 9 



151 

 183 

 394 

 322 

 886 



239 

 78 



31 

 226 



12 

 III 



146 



14 

 46 



159 



24 



109 

 103 

 298 

 174 

 555 

 131 

 46 



15 



184 



6 



63 



85 



8 



10 



82 



10 



33 



70 

 144 



59 

 133 

 127 



10 



7 

 122 



3 



18 



13 



6 

 2 



3 

 2 



75 



4 



16 



3 

 3 

 3 



We should also note the development of agricultural co-operative so- 

 cieties in Sicily, those of production and labour and of building in Emilia 

 and Romagna, those of consumption in lyombardy, etc. Generally speaking 

 societies are most numerously formed in the districts in which agriculture 

 and industry are most cteveloped. 



In order to show more clearly the intensity of the co-operative move- 

 ment in the various districts, we reproduce the following table in which the 

 number of societies is considered in relation to the density of population 

 in each district and the number of its communes. 



