A Usable Past: Victorian Agitator, George Jacob Holyoake (1817-1906): Co-operation as ’This New Order of Life’

Holyoake was a classic example of Gramsci’s working-class ’organic intellectual’. An Owenite ’social missionary’, he became a Radical Liberal, Secularist and Co-operator, responsible for the legend of ’the Rochdale Pioneers’.