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The Uralungal Labour Contract Cooperative Society

March 10, 2026 Najeeb VR, Grassroots Economic Organizing. , , ,
In 1925, before the communist movement was established in southwestern India, the followers of the social reformer Vayaleri Kunhikannan Gurukkal, also known as Sri Vagbhatananda Guru, (1885–1939) founded the Uralungal Labour Contract Cooperative Society (ULCCS) to provide construction workers with social protection. Today, the ULCCS is Asia’s largest workers’ cooperative, and it was ranked second in the 2021 World Cooperative Monitor list of industry and utilities cooperatives. United Nations Development Programme Resident Coordinator in India Lise Grande calls it a model cooperative whose success provides ‘great lessons for the rest of the world’.
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