by Francesc Ferrer i Gironès · Cossetània Edicions · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788497912211
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This book tells the biography of Joan Tutau i Vergés, a promoter of cooperativism who intensely lived politics, economics, and civism. He introduced the cooperative movement in 1863 and was the first promoter of consumer cooperatives, recommending them to the working class. He was a precursor of agricultural unions and a federal republican leader along with Abdó Terrades, Martí Carlès, Narcís Monturiol, and Pere Caimó. He wrote in Almanaque democrático and El Ampurdanés, and was elected second mayor of Figueres in 1854. In 1869, he won the elections to the Cortes Constituentes and declared himself a free trader, voting in 1870 against the monarchy and in favor of the Federal Republic. In 1873, he was appointed Minister of Finance. He was part of the Ateneu Lliure de Catalunya, the Revolutionary Junta of Barcelona, the Societat Catalana General de Crèdit, and the Ateneu Barcelonès.
