Co-operative Canada : empowering communities and sustainable businesses

Fairbairn, Brett, 1959- (author,, editor.). Russell, Nora, (editor.).

Record details

ISBN: 9780774827881
ISBN: 0774827882
Physical Description: print
292 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Publisher: Vancouver, BC : UBC Press, [2014]
Copyright: 2014

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Formatted Contents Note:

1. Globalization, co-operatives, and social cohesion -- 2. "Nuna is my body": what northerners can teach about social cohesion -- 3. "I felt that I had lost myself": credit unions, economies, and the construciton of locality -- 4. Autonomy and identity: constraints and possibilities in western Canada's co-operative retailing system -- 5. Social cohesion in times of crisis: Atlantic Canada's Consumers' Community Co-operative -- 6. Reclaiming community: co-operatives and sectoral governanace in Quebec forestry -- -- 7. Rebuilding "home" in a transient world: globalization, social exclusion, and innovations in co-operative housing -- 8. Co-operation reinvented: new partnerships in multi-stakeholder co-operatives -- 9. "To see our communities come alive again with pride": (re)inventing co-operatives for First Nations' needs -- 10. Imagination and the future: learning from social enterprises -- Appendix: the enterprise with many names: establising a common language.