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== Cooperatives in popular culture ==
{{as of|2012}}, the number of memberships in cooperatives reached one billion,<ref>"[http://www.worldwatch.org/membership-co-operative-businesses-reaches-1-billion-0 Membership in Co-operative Businesses Reaches 1 Billion] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190730114330/http://www.worldwatch.org/membership-co-operative-businesses-reaches-1-billion-0 |date=30 July 2019 }}," WorldWatch Institute</ref> and so the organizational structure and movement has seeped into popular culture.

However, in comparison with the number of co-operatives, they are rarely the subject of literature. Among these, [[Ken Follett]] mentions their role in working-class life during [[World War I]] in ''[[Fall of Giants]]'' (2010), the first volume of his ''Century Trilogy'':
:"Where's our mam?"
:"Gone down the Co-op for a tin of jam."

The local grocery was a co-operative store, sharing profits among its customers. Such shops were popular in South Wales, although no one knew how to pronounce Co-op, variations ranging from "cop" to "quorp".<ref>Follett, K. ''Fall of Giants'', 2010, Pan Books, London, {{ISBN|978-0-330-53544-1}}, p. 487</ref>

Less seriously, in ''Murder in the Collective'', [[Barbara Wilson (American author)|Barbara Wilson]] sets a murder mystery among radical printing collectives in Seattle,<ref>Wilson, B. ''Murder in the Collective'' 1984, Seal Press, Seattle. {{ISBN|9781878067234}}</ref> while Frances Madeson's 2007 comic novel ''Cooperative Village'' is set in [[Cooperative Village|the eponymous housing co-operative]] in New York.<ref>Madeson, F. ''Cooperative Village'', 2007, Carol MRP Co, {{ISBN|9780979277207}}</ref>

In the [[HBO]] drama television series ''[[The Wire]]'', several drug dealers create a democratic alliance called the New Day Co-Op with the interests of cutting back on violence and increasing business.

''Co-opoly: The Game of Cooperatives'' is a popular [[board game]] by [[TESA Collective]] played around the world that challenges players to work together to start and run a cooperative and overcome major hurdles.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://store.toolboxfored.org/co-opoly-the-game-of-co-operatives/|title=Co-opoly: The Game of Co-operatives|work=The Toolbox for Education and Social Action|access-date=16 January 2014|archive-date=17 January 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140117014656/http://store.toolboxfored.org/co-opoly-the-game-of-co-operatives/|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>[http://truth-out.org/opinion/item/16512-teach-your-children-well-dont-play-monopoly "Teach Your Children Well: Don't Play Monopoly"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170621155222/http://www.truth-out.org/opinion/item/16512-teach-your-children-well-dont-play-monopoly |date=21 June 2017 }}, Truthout.org</ref>

Cooperatives feature prominently in the Martian economy in [[Kim Stanley Robinson]]'s [[Mars trilogy|''Mars'' trilogy]] and in a speculative future Earth economy in his novel ''[[The Ministry for the Future]]''.