Co-operative Canada: Empowering Communities and Sustainable Businesses - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0774827890 ISBN 13: 9780774827898

Publisher: UBC Press, 2015

Synopsis

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.

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Review:

Regardless of the numerous ways in which communities organize and function, co-operatives have been at the forefront of formal business solutions to local challenges and opportunities. Co-operatives espouse the ethical values with which many people identify, building bridges across multiple divides. Co-operative Canada skillfully guides us through an array of diverse communities linked by these values, usefully pointing to lessons learned. Author: Sonja Novkovic, chair, International Co-operative Alliance Research Committee

From the Author:

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

About this edition

• Publisher: UBC Press
• Publication date: 2015
• ISBN 10: 0774827890
• ISBN 13: 9780774827898
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 304
• Editor: Fairbairn Brett, Russell Nora