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Review of Placing the Social Economy by Amin, Cameron, Hudson in 2002
(2008-02-18)
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 ...
Co-ops, the social economy, and CED in Quebec
(Making Waves, 2001)
Understanding the relationship between CED and the co-operative movement in Quebec
Faith Based Support for CED: God's call for Justice
(Making Waves, 2001)
Karl Polanyi did not look upon the reconstruction of society as primarily a political task that could be achieved by a government with socialist ideas. Reconstruction had to be social.
New Synergies: The Co-operative Movement, CED, and the Social Economy
(Making Waves, 2004)
It is said that "at the core of every co-ops history is an unmet need."
The Political Imperative: Civil Society and the Politics of Empowerment
(Making Waves, 2004)
There's a driving desire in this country right now for deep change to the way we live and govern ourselves. I see it ion the women's movement, the co-op movement, the environmental movement, in labour, in community economic ...
Sectoral Strategies in CED: Critical factors in the success of CHCA & Childspace
(Making Waves, 2003)
Scale and markets notwithstanding, Cooperative Home Care Associates (New York City) and Childspace Day Care Centers (Philadelphia) have plenty to teach Canada's co-operators and other CED activists. Kreiner challenges CED ...
A Day In The Life Of Le Boulot Vers
(Making Waves, 2004)
For nearly a generation now, Montréal's Le Boulot vers ... has been helping young people make the break from poverty, alienation, and dependency, and discover instead a world of opportunity. Most often referred to as a ...
The Potluck Café: Navigating the "twilight zone" of social enterprise
(Making Waves, 2004)
Since 2001, a small shop in Vancouver's Downtown Eastside has been serving 1000s of meals to some of the city's most sick and isolated residents, while training and employing others in food preparation. Now, after three ...
Revolution Within A Revolution: Québec's experiment with co-operative health care & social service delivery
(Making Waves, 2003)
Québec's decade of experimentation with health care and social service co-operatives has given rise to a reconfiguration of the actors in the health system. No longer do people talk about a system with two actors. Rather ...
Death Of A Co-op: The Quesnel Hardwood Co-Operative
(Making Waves, 2003)
Struggling to survive drastic restructuring in BC's forest industry, small-time harvesters and processors in Quesnel, BC combined forces. They created a co-op to channel "nuisance" birch and aspen into hardwood markets in ...