| dc.contributor.author | Turok, Ivan | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2008-02-18T18:28:03Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2008-02-18T18:28:03Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2008-02-18T18:28:03Z | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/2149/1490 | |
| dc.description | Success depends on local conditions, such as the history of voluntary sector activity and community activism, which cannot be wished into existence by policy-makers.
The importance of place and local context in influencing the nature and effectiveness
of social enterprises is a recurrent theme of the book.
The sector’s overall economic achievements have been modest in relation to policy expectations.
Third, the social economy cannot substitute
for the welfare state either.
Fourth, the authors argue strongly against
the tendency in government to view the social
economy as a localised solution to the problems of social exclusion. The causes of poverty and exclusion generally lie beyond neighbourhoods in wider economic and social processes | en |
| dc.description.abstract | This book offers a challenging assessment of the merits of the social economy, with far-reaching implications for policy
and attitudes towards the social economy. It analyses
the performance of this sector in different
parts of Britain against the various expectations
that have built up. The result is a sobering account
of experience on the ground and a thoroughgoing
critique of current aspirations and assumptions
about the purpose and impact of the sector. | en |
| dc.format.extent | 51678 bytes | |
| dc.format.mimetype | application/pdf | |
| dc.language.iso | | en |
| dc.subject | social economy | en |
| dc.subject | review | en |
| dc.subject | shortcomings | en |
| dc.subject | expectations | en |
| dc.title | Review of Placing the Social Economy by Amin, Cameron, Hudson in 2002 | en |
| dc.type | Article | en |
