Foraying into new horizons

The Uralungal Labour Contracting Cooperative Society, which is celebrating the hundredth year of its founding, is making forays into newer arenas, even as it continues to take on a large number of big-ticket infrastructure projects. S.R. Praveen traces the evolution of the century-old cooperative from an anti-caste social movement to a permanent member of the International Cooperative Alliance and one of the best cooperative societies in the world