Cooperatives And Community Development

Author : Vanna Gonzales,Rhonda Phillips
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 185 pages
File Size : 44,7 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 : 43,6 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 : 43,9 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 : Marcela Vásquez-Léon,Brian J. Burke,Timothy J. Finan
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2017-03-14
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780816534746

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Cooperatives, Grassroots Development, and Social Change by Marcela Vásquez-Léon,Brian J. Burke,Timothy J. Finan Pdf

"Provides a cross-country comparison of smallholder agricultural cooperatives in Paraguay, Brazil and Colombia, revealing immense opportunities and challenges for community development, empowerment, and social change"--Provided by publisher.

Author : Brett Fairbairn,Nora Russell
Publisher : UBC Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 48,9 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 : Robert Hamilton,John Borrows,Brent Mainprize,Ryan Beaton,Joshua Ben David Nichols
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 385 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2021-10-01
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781487537500

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Wise Practices by Robert Hamilton,John Borrows,Brent Mainprize,Ryan Beaton,Joshua Ben David Nichols Pdf

Indigenous peoples in Canada are striving for greater economic prosperity and political self-determination. Investigating specific legal, economic, and political practices, and including research from interviews with Indigenous political and business leaders, this collection seeks to provide insights grounded in lived experience. Covering such critical topics as economic justice and self-determination, and the barriers faced in pursuing each, Wise Practices sets out to understand the issues not in terms of sweeping empirical findings but through particular experiences of individuals and communities. The choice to focus on specific practices of law and governance is a conscious rejection of idealized theorizing about law and governance and represents an important step beyond the existing scholarship. This volume offers readers a broad scope of perspectives, incorporating contemporary thought on Indigenous law and legal orders, the impact of state law on Indigenous peoples, theories and practices of economic development, and grounded practices of governances. While the authors address a range of topics, each does so in a way that sheds light on how Indigenous practices of law and governance support the social and economic development of Indigenous peoples.

Author : Jon Steinman
Publisher : New Society Publishers
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2019-05-07
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781550927009

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Grocery Story by Jon Steinman Pdf

Hungry for change? Put the power of food co-ops on your plate and grow your local food economy. Food has become ground-zero in our efforts to increase awareness of how our choices impact the world. Yet while we have begun to transform our communities and dinner plates, the most authoritative strand of the food web has received surprisingly little attention: the grocery store—the epicenter of our food-gathering ritual. Through penetrating analysis and inspiring stories and examples of American and Canadian food co-ops, Grocery Story makes a compelling case for the transformation of the grocery store aisles as the emerging frontier in the local and good food movements. Author Jon Steinman: Deconstructs the food retail sector and the shadows cast by corporate giants Makes the case for food co-ops as an alternative Shows how co-ops spur the creation of local food-based economies and enhance low-income food access. Grocery Story is for everyone who eats. Whether you strive to eat more local and sustainable food, or are in support of community economic development, Grocery Story will leave you hungry to join the food co-op movement in your own community.

Author : Silvio Goglio,Yiorgos Alexopoulos
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2013-05-02
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781136253584

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Financial Cooperatives and Local Development by Silvio Goglio,Yiorgos Alexopoulos Pdf

This book examines the opportunities opened up for financial cooperatives by the recent financial crisis, and explores the role of these institutions in promoting and sustaining local development. The global financial crisis has not only shown the limits of the mainstream theory of markets and rational expectations, but has also generated a great deal of disillusionment with the banking system and underlined the importance of a healthy society for the welfare of the individual. Consequently, new and innovative ways of providing finance are needed, especially for strengthening the development of local societies.

Author : E. G. Nadeau
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 170 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2021-03
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0998066249

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Strengthening the Cooperative Community by E. G. Nadeau Pdf

Strengthening the Cooperative Community by E.G. Nadeau, Ph.D., draws on his 50 years of experience in researching, developing, teaching and writing about what makes cooperative businesses succeed or fail, and how to make co-ops an even more dynamic force for positive change that benefits people and the environment in the 21st century. The book first presents an historical review that derives lessons from a variety of cooperative sectors including insurance companies that emerged around 1700; grocery, financial and agricultural co-ops that originated in the 1800s; and electricity, employee-owned and social service co-ops that began in the 20th century. The book then focuses on examples of, and lessons from, Nadeau's 50 years of experience as a researcher and developer of dozens of cooperative projects in North America, Europe, Africa, and Asia.The third section of the book describes six "building blocks" of cooperative development that have proven to be key factors in creating successful co-ops and a thriving International co-op community with an estimated 1 billion members.The final section presents opportunities for cooperative development in the 21st century that have the potential to generate jobs and services for hundreds of millions of new co-op members and employees.The latter two sections of the book make 16 specific, practical recommendations for strengthening the cooperative community in the current decade.

Author : Jessica Gordon Nembhard
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 325 pages
File Size : 46,8 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 : Piero Ammirato
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2018-04-27
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781351657600

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The Growth of Italian Cooperatives by Piero Ammirato Pdf

The Italian Cooperative Sector is amongst the largest in the world comprising over 60,000 cooperatives from all sectors of the economy directly employing 1.3 million people. Cooperatives created close to 30 percent of new jobs in Italy between 2001 and 2011 demonstrating that democratic cooperative enterprises can successfully operate in a market economy combining economic success and social responsibility. These offer a viable alternative to profit maximising enterprises and an opportunity to create a more pluralist and democratic market economy. The Growth of Italian Cooperatives: Innovation, Resilience and Social Responsibility comprehensively explains how the Italian cooperative sector has managed to compete successfully in the global economy and to grow during the global financial crisis. This book will comprehensively explain how the Italian cooperative movement has managed to grow into a large successful network of cooperatives. It will examine the legislative framework and their unique business model that allows it to compete in the market as part of a network that includes central cooperative associations, financial and economic consortia, and financial companies. It will explore cooperative entrepreneurship through a discussion of the formation of cooperative groups, start-ups, worker-buyouts and the promotion of entirely new sectors such as the social services sector. Finally, The Growth of Italian Cooperatives examines how cooperatives have managed the GFC and how their behavior differs from private enterprises. It will also analyze the extent to which cooperatives compete while still uphold the key cooperative principles and fulfil their social responsibility. This book is an interdisciplinary study of cooperative development and is designed to inform members of the academic community, government, public policy makers and cooperative managers that are primarily interested in economic democracy, economics of the cooperative enterprise, cooperative networks and economic development, cooperative legislation, democratic governance, job creation programs, politics of inclusion and how wealth can be more equitably distributed.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 215 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Community development
ISBN : OCLC:299224978

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Climate for Cooperative Community Development by Anonim Pdf

Author : Lou Hammond Ketilson,Murray Fulton,Brett Fairbairn
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 54,9 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 : Andrew Emmanuel Okem
Publisher : Springer
Page : 116 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2016-06-29
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783319342160

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Theoretical and Empirical Studies on Cooperatives by Andrew Emmanuel Okem Pdf

The book outlines how cooperatives can be used as a tool for development and reconciliation in post-conflict contexts. This book also examines the successes and challenges for emerging and existing cooperatives in Africa, while delivering both practical lessons and insights into the theory. It presents completely new materials on the cooperative movement, against a backdrop of increasing global recognition of the roles of cooperatives and collective action in socio-economic development. Readers are invited to consider how, as an economic model that seeks to advance member collective interests, cooperatives are invaluable tools for human, economic and social development. Social and human geographers find this a remarkably impactful contribution to the literature surrounding cooperatives in Africa and cooperative theory in general. Policy experts and students also find the research informative and insightful.

Author : Christopher D. Merrett,Norman Walzer
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 339 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2016-09-16
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781315290270

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Cooperatives and Local Development by Christopher D. Merrett,Norman Walzer Pdf

First Published in 2004. The market economy has changed profoundly over the past two centuries. In the nineteenth century, business enterprises were largely single-product ventures, managed directly by the owners and rooted within national economies. In the twentieth century, firms employed managers who were not owners. Firms also evolved into multiproduct, multiunit entities that could employ thousands of workers. In the twenty-first century, many firms operate on a global scale, taking advantage of free trade policies and rapidly evolving computer and telecommunications technologies. Given this potential, it is crucial that producers, consumers, economic developers, and researchers realize how co-ops can promote local economic and community development. Hence, this book includes the perceptions of experts on a variety of cooperative issues, including the challenges involved in starting a co-op and in understanding its impact on surrounding communities. This book can be especially useful because it provides the theoretical foundations and practical applications of cooperative behavior.