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The Social Economy; Alternative Ways of Thinking about Capitalism and Welfare

ISBN: 9781848132818 | 1848132816
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: Zed Books
Pub. Date: 10/15/2009

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SummaryTable of ContentsAuthor Biography
From creches to environmental services, from consumer cooperatives to social housing, governments in many countries have begun to introduce legislation to support social enterprises. Taking case studies from Australasia, Europe, North America and Latin America, this book outlines the different ways that the social economy takes place according to locally specific factors. It argues that, against the low expectations of some critics in many countries the case evidence is plentiful that social enterprise work compares favorably with the best expe... MORE
Section 1: Conceptual Challenges * Placing the social economy--Ash Amin * Social economy: Engaging in a Third System--John Pearce * Section 2: International Evidence * Does it make a difference working for social cooperatives in Italy?--Carlo Borzaga *  Community economies in Massachusetts--Julie Graham and Janelle Cornwell * Growth dilemmas of social enterprise in Australia--Jenny Cameron * Ethical challenges and diverse pathways in the  Philippines--Katherine Gibson and Community Economies Collective * Ethnographies of wor... MORE
Ash Amin is Professor of Geography at the University of Durham.


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