Alternative currency movements as a challenge to globalisation?
Subtitle: a case study of Manchester's local currency networks
By: by Peter North.
Series: Ashgate economic geography series
Publisher: Ashgate Pub. Co.
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Burlington, VT
Language: eng
Number of pages: 186
Subjects: Local exchange trading systems -- England -- Manchester.; Local exchange trading systems.
Notes: Includes index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: money only has the value we give it?; title: Context and theoretical background; title: Developing a toolkit for understanding LETS: Social movement approaches; title: Investigating social movements; title: 'Dirty old town': urban change in Manchester; title: Manchester's alternative currency networks; title: LETS in Manchester; title: The politics of LETS; title: Self analysis: do members see LETS as a social movement?; title: Transformation: LETS and economic development; title: LETS and the inner city; title: Explorations in heterotopia: the micropolitics of money, work and community; title: Conclusions; title: Conclusions: the long term trajectory of LETS.