Overview
A shift in US bank policy. A demonstration in Greece. A tsunami in Japan. In recent times, these kinds of events have had profound effects on the economic well-being of Canadians. In such a heavily globalized environment, it may seem that only large corporations with access to transnational resources can operate successfully, but Co-operative Canada demonstrates that this is not the case. Despite economic pressures following the 2008 recession, co-operatives in Canada are thriving. In fact, there are approximately nine thousand co-ops across the nation with a combined membership of about 18 million members – more than half the population of Canada. 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 using the co-operative model to collectively respond to the forces of globalization through local, community-owned enterprises. It does this through specific examples that vividly describe the pragmatic realities of the communities these co-ops serve.
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Author: Brett Fairbairn , Nora Russell
Publisher: University of British Columbia Press
Imprint: University of British Columbia Press
Dimensions:
Width: 15.20cm
, Height: 2.30cm
, Length: 22.90cm
Weight: 0.570kg
ISBN: 9780774827881
ISBN 10: 0774827882
Pages: 304
Publication Date: 20 October 2014
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Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: In Print 
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Table of Contents
Introduction: Where We Stand – Place, Enterprise, and Community / Brett Fairbairn Part 1: Globalization, Autonomy, and Cohesion 1 Globalization, Co-operatives, and Social Cohesion / William D. Coleman 2 “Nuna Is My Body”: What Northerners Can Teach about Social Cohesion / Isobel M. Findlay Part 2: Social Enterprises and Networks 3 “I Felt That I Had Lost Myself”: Credit Unions, Economies, and the Construction of Locality / Brett Fairbairn with Rob Dobrohoczki 4 Autonomy and Identity: Constraints and Possibilities in Western Canada’s Co-operative Retailing System / Jason Heit, Murray Fulton, and Brett Fairbairn 5 Social Cohesion in Times of Crisis: Atlantic Canada’s Consumers’ Community Co-operative / Leslie H. Brown Part 3: New Partnerships and Models 6 Reclaiming Community: Co-operatives and Sectoral Governance in Quebec Forestry / Patrick Gingras and Mario Carrier 7 Rebuilding “Home” in a Transient World: Globalization, Social Exclusion, and Innovations in Co-operative Housing / Mitch Diamantopoulos and Jorge Sousa 8 Co-operation Reinvented: New Partnerships in Multi-Stakeholder Co-operatives / Jean-Pierre Girard and Geneviève Langlois 9 “To See Our Communities Come Alive Again with Pride”: (Re)Inventing Co-operatives for First Nations’ Needs / Lou Hammond Ketilson 10 Imagination and the Future: Learning from Social Enterprises / Brett Fairbairn Appendix: The Enterprise with Many Names: Establishing a Common Language / Brett Fairbairn Index
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Brett Fairbairn is a professor in the Johnson-Shoyama Graduate School of Public Policy at the University of Saskatchewan specializing in democratic governance and history. He is also Fellow in Co-operative Thought and Ideas at the University’s Centre for the Study of Co-operatives. Nora Russell is the publications/communications officer at the Centre for the Study of Co-operatives at the University of Saskatchewan. They are co-editors of Co-operative Membership and Globalization. Contributors: Leslie H. Brown, Mario Carrier, William D. Coleman, Mitch Diamantopoulos, Rob Dobrohoczki, Isobel M. Findlay, Murray Fulton, Patrick Gingras, Jean-Pierre Girard, Jason Heit, Geneviève Langlois, Lou Hammond Ketilson, and Jorge Sousa
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