Social Economy - International Debates and Perspectives (Paperback)

Chapter 1: Eric Shragge and Jean-Marc Fontan
Tendencies, Tensions and Visions in the Social Economy

Chapter 2: Enzo Mingione
Market and Society: The Social Embeddedment of the Economy

Chapter 3: Michele Cangiani
About the Possibility of Reversing the Process of Commodification: The Scope of the Non-profit Economy

Chapter 4: Jack Quarter
The Social Economy and the Neo-Conservative Agenda

Chapter 5: Paul Leduc Browne
The Neo-Liberal Uses of the Social Economy: Non-Profit Organizations and Workfare in Ontario

Chapter 6: Andrea Levy
Jobs, Work, and the Social Economy

Chapter 7: Kathryn Church
Alternative Economies: Building the Social from the Economic

Chapter 8: Benoit Levesque and Bill Ninacs
The Social Economy in Canada: The Quebec Experience

Chapter 9: Bill Ninacs
Social Economy: A Practitioner's Viewpoint

Chapter 10: Jean-Luc Souchet
The Mutual Insurance System in Loire-Atlantic: Ten Generations of Supportive Innovations

Chapter 11: Louis Favreau
Globalization and the Social Economy: A North-South Perspective

Chapter 12: Michael Toye
Selected Resources on the Social Economy

NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS

Eric Shragge teaches social policy and community organization at the School of Social Work, McGill University. He is the editor of "Community Economic Development: In Search of Empowerment," (Black Rose Books, 1997) and "Workfare: Ideology for a New Underclass," (Garamond, 1997). He is able to escape from the university by working with grassroots community organizations.

Jean-Marc Fontan has a PhD in sociology from the University of Montreal. He is a professor-researcher at the department of sociology of University of Quebec in Montreal. He works mainly on local development and community economic development. He co-published en 1994 an important book on local development in Quebec. He is member of the Collectif de recherche inter-universitaire sur les transformations et les regulations economiques et sociales (CRITERES).

Enzo Mingione is Professor of rural and urban sociology at the University of Messina, Italy.

Michele Cangiani teaches economic sociology at the Universita di Venezi

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