Co Operatives And Community Development

Author : Vanna Gonzales,Rhonda Phillips
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 185 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2014-01-21
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781317850588

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Cooperatives and Community Development by Vanna Gonzales,Rhonda Phillips Pdf

In celebration of cooperatives’ contributions to community development processes and outcomes worldwide, the United Nations designated 2012 as the Year of the Cooperative. Today, as in the past, cooperatives have proved effective in bringing people and organizations together to accomplish a broad array of goals related to fostering social and economic innovation, protecting communities against poor living and working conditions, and promoting a better quality of life. Analytically, as both a movement and as a business model, cooperatives hold much potential for generating the types of synergies, collaboration, and productive and social processes that enable community development to thrive in a variety of local, regional and global contexts. This collection of articles chronicles new developments in the ways in which cooperatives are used in a diverse array of community contexts. They offer insight as to what these changes mean, both empirically and theoretically, for community development in the decades to come. This book is a compilation of articles published in the journal Community Development.

Author : Brett Fairbairn,University of Saskatchewan. Centre for the Study of Co-operatives
Publisher : Saskatoon : Centre for the Study of Co-operatives, Diefenbaker Centre, University of Saskatchewan
Page : 166 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : WISC:89046808176

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Co-operatives and Community Development by Brett Fairbairn,University of Saskatchewan. Centre for the Study of Co-operatives Pdf

Author : Aaron Windel
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2021-11-30
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780520381872

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Cooperative Rule by Aaron Windel Pdf

Cooperative rule -- Pedagogies of community development -- Anti-empire, development, and emergency rule -- Uganda's anticolonial cooperative movement -- Cooperatives and decolonization in postwar Britain.

Author : Brett Fairbairn,Nora Russell
Publisher : UBC Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2014-08-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780774827911

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Co-operative Canada by Brett Fairbairn,Nora Russell Pdf

A shift in US bank policy. A demonstration in Greece. A tsunami in Japan. These types of events can have profound effects on the economic well-being of Canadian communities. In such a heavily globalized environment, it may seem that only large corporations with access to transnational resources can operate successfully, but Canadian co-operatives demonstrate that this is not the case. Drawing on the results of a large research project that examined co-operatives in communities from coast to coast to coast, Co-operative Canada reveals how Canadians are collectively responding to the forces of globalization through local, community-owned enterprises.

Author : Lou Hammond Ketilson,Murray Fulton,Brett Fairbairn
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 1992-01-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0888804393

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Climate for Co-Operative Community Development by Lou Hammond Ketilson,Murray Fulton,Brett Fairbairn Pdf

Author : Jessica Gordon Nembhard
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 325 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2015-06-13
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780271064260

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Collective Courage by Jessica Gordon Nembhard Pdf

In Collective Courage, Jessica Gordon Nembhard chronicles African American cooperative business ownership and its place in the movements for Black civil rights and economic equality. Not since W. E. B. Du Bois’s 1907 Economic Co-operation Among Negro Americans has there been a full-length, nationwide study of African American cooperatives. Collective Courage extends that story into the twenty-first century. Many of the players are well known in the history of the African American experience: Du Bois, A. Philip Randolph and the Ladies' Auxiliary to the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters, Nannie Helen Burroughs, Fannie Lou Hamer, Ella Jo Baker, George Schuyler and the Young Negroes’ Co-operative League, the Nation of Islam, and the Black Panther Party. Adding the cooperative movement to Black history results in a retelling of the African American experience, with an increased understanding of African American collective economic agency and grassroots economic organizing. To tell the story, Gordon Nembhard uses a variety of newspapers, period magazines, and journals; co-ops’ articles of incorporation, minutes from annual meetings, newsletters, budgets, and income statements; and scholarly books, memoirs, and biographies. These sources reveal the achievements and challenges of Black co-ops, collective economic action, and social entrepreneurship. Gordon Nembhard finds that African Americans, as well as other people of color and low-income people, have benefitted greatly from cooperative ownership and democratic economic participation throughout the nation’s history.

Author : John Sewel,Diarmuid Ó Cearbhaill
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1982
Category : Agriculture, Cooperative
ISBN : UOM:39015001766743

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Co-operation and Community Development by John Sewel,Diarmuid Ó Cearbhaill Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 215 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Community development
ISBN : OCLC:299224978

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Climate for Cooperative Community Development by Anonim Pdf

Author : Greg Patmore,Nikola Balnave
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2018-04-17
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781317270201

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A Global History of Co-operative Business by Greg Patmore,Nikola Balnave Pdf

Co-operatives provide a different approach to organizing business through their ideals of member ownership and democratic practice. Every co-operative member has an equal vote regardless of his or her own personal capital investment. The contemporary significance of co-operatives was highlighted by the United Nations declaration of 2012 as the International Year of Co-operatives. This book provides an international perspective on the development of co-operatives since the mid-nineteenth century, exploring the economic, political, and social factors that explain their varying fortunes and transformation into different forms. By looking at what co-operatives are; how they have changed; the developments as well as the persecutions of the co-operative movement; and how it is an important force in promoting development and self-sufficiency in non-industrialized areas, this book provides valuable insight not only to academics, but also to practitioners and policy makers.

Author : John Restakis
Publisher : New Society Publishers
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2010-09-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781550924619

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Humanizing the Economy by John Restakis Pdf

How the largest social movement in history is making the world a better place. At the close of the twentieth century, corporate capitalism extended its reach over the globe. While its defenders argue that globalization is the only way forward for modern, democratic societies, the spread of this system is failing to meet even the most basic needs of billions of individuals around the world. Moreover, the entrenchment of this free market system is undermining the foundations of healthy societies, caring communities, and personal wellbeing. Humanizing the Economy shows how co-operative models for economic and social development can create a more equitable, just, and humane future. With over 800 million members in 85 countries and a long history linking economic to social values, the co-operative movement is the most powerful grassroots movement in the world. Its future as an alternative to corporate capitalism is explored through a wide range of real-world examples including: Emilia Romagna's co-operative economy of in Northern Italy Argentina's recovered factory movement Japan's consumer and health co-operatives Highlighting the hopes and struggles of everyday people seeking to make their world a better place, Humanizing the Economy is essential reading for anyone who cares about the reform of economics, globalization, and social justice. John Restakis has been active in the co-op movement for 15 years. He is the Executive Director of the BC Co-operative Association and has been a consultant for co-op development projects in Africa and Asia. A pioneering researcher on co-operative economies, he writes and lectures on economic democracy and the role of co-operatives in humanizing economies.

Author : Vanna Gonzales,Rhonda G. Phillips
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2014-01-21
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781317850571

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Cooperatives and Community Development by Vanna Gonzales,Rhonda G. Phillips Pdf

In celebration of cooperatives’ contributions to community development processes and outcomes worldwide, the United Nations designated 2012 as the Year of the Cooperative. Today, as in the past, cooperatives have proved effective in bringing people and organizations together to accomplish a broad array of goals related to fostering social and economic innovation, protecting communities against poor living and working conditions, and promoting a better quality of life. Analytically, as both a movement and as a business model, cooperatives hold much potential for generating the types of synergies, collaboration, and productive and social processes that enable community development to thrive in a variety of local, regional and global contexts. This collection of articles chronicles new developments in the ways in which cooperatives are used in a diverse array of community contexts. They offer insight as to what these changes mean, both empirically and theoretically, for community development in the decades to come. This book is a compilation of articles published in the journal Community Development.

Author : Sarah Todd,Sébastien Savard
Publisher : University of Ottawa Press
Page : 468 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2020-03-03
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780776628660

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Canadian Perspectives on Community Development by Sarah Todd,Sébastien Savard Pdf

Founded in a perspective that speaks to the diversity of contexts and processes used across Canada, this work is nevertheless firmly grounded in theory, offering an in-depth analysis geared toward advanced study in community practice. This depth is further strengthened by the diversity of topics represented in this collective work: community work in various regions of the country exploring issues of poverty and environmental activism; community work with immigrants and refugees, and with trans communities; feminist community organizing as well as organizing with persons with disabilities and with members of linguistic communities; and, finally, artsbased community work with the elderly. This book is published in English. - S’il reflète une diversité de contextes et de processus mis en oeuvre partout au Canada, cet ouvrage est toutefois fermement ancré dans la théorie, convenant aux études avancées en pratique communautaire. La diversité des sujets que propose cet ouvrage collectif est d’un intérêt particulier, qu’il s’agisse du travail communautaire dans diverses régions du pays explorant les questions de la pauvreté et de l’activisme environnemental; le travail communautaire auprès des immigrants et des réfugiés et avec les communautés de personnes trans; l’organisation de la communauté féministe ainsi que celle des personnes handicapées ou celle des membres de communautés linguistiques, et enfin, le travail communautaire axé sur les arts auprès des personnes âgées. Ce livre est publié en anglais.

Author : Jack Quarter,Laurie Mook,Ann Armstrong
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 421 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2017-11-21
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781487520335

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Understanding the Social Economy by Jack Quarter,Laurie Mook,Ann Armstrong Pdf

The second edition of Understanding the Social Economy expands upon the authors' ground-breaking examination of organizations founded upon a social mission - social enterprises, non-profits, co-operatives, credit unions, and community development associations.

Author : Paul Wilkinson,Jack Quarter
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 199 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1996-01-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780802008732

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Building a Community-controlled Economy by Paul Wilkinson,Jack Quarter Pdf

Focusing on four co-operatives in the Evangeline region, an Acadian community on Prince Edward Island, the authors discuss why some co-operatives succeed while others fail.

Author : Hans Holmén
Publisher : Nordic Africa Institute
Page : 52 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Africa
ISBN : 9171063005

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State, Cooperatives and Development in Africa by Hans Holmén Pdf