Solidarity economy
Subtitle: building alternatives for people and planet ; papers and reports from the U.S. Social Forum 2007
By: edited by Jenna Allard, Carl Davidson, and Julie Matthaei
Publisher: ChangeMaker Publications
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Chicago
Language: eng
Number of pages: 427
ISBN-13: 9780615194899
Subjects: Economics; Sociological aspects; Sustainable development; Solidarity
Description: "The emergence of the global grassroots economic structural reform movement known as the Solidarity Economy. This book contain the core papers, discussion and debates on the topic at the U.S. Social Forum of 10,000 people in Atlanta in the summer of 2007."--pub. desc.
Table of contents: title: Pt. 1. New visions and models; title: Why we need another world : introduction to neoliberalism / Helen Garrett-Peltier and Helen Scharber; title: Social economy & solidarity economy / Michael Lewis, Dan Swinney; title: Between global and local, alternatives to globalization / Sally Kohn; title: There is an alternative : economic democracy & participatory economics / Michael Albert, David Schweickart; title: Introduction to the economics of liberation : an overview of PROUT; title: pt. 2. Defining the solidarity economy through diverse practices; title: Building a solidarity economy from real world practices / Ethan Miller, Emily Kawano; title: Beyond reform or revolution, economic transformation in the U.S. [USA, United States] / Julie Matthaei ... et al.; title: Building community economies any time any place : community economics collective / Stephen Healy, Janelle Cornwall, Ted White, Karen Werner; title: Pt. 3. Building the solidarity economy through social movements; title: Feminist economic transformation / Julie Matthaei; title: Immigrants, globalization, and organizing for rights, solidarity and economic justice / Germai Medhanie; title: Just between us : women in struggle in Africa and the African Diaspora / Rose Brewer; title: pt. 4. Building the solidarity economy through cooperatives and socially responsible business; title: Growing transformative businesses / G. Medhanie, Jessica Gordon Nembhard, Ann Bartz, Adam Trott; title: Competing by cooperative in Italy : the Cooperative District of Imola / Matt Hancock; title: Another workplace is possible : Co-ops and workplace democracy [cooperatives] / Melissa Hanover; title: Pt. 5. Building the solidarity economy through networking and community organizing; title: Solidarity economy as a strategy for changine the economy : Canadian Community Economic Development Network [Canada]; title: Ethel Cote ; Chantier l'Economie sociale; title: Nancy Neamtan ; Building the solidarity economy of Peru; title: Nedda Angulo Villareal; title: High road community development : public schools and the solidarity economy / Dan Swinney; title: pt. 6. Building the solidarity economy through public policy; title: Participatory budgeting : from Porto Alegre, Brazil to the U.S. / Michael Menser and Juscha Robinson; title: The Sky as a common resource / Matthew Riddle; title: U.S. Economic inequality and What we can do about it / Thomas Masterson and Suresh Naidu; title: You are what you eat [US food, farm system, policy] / Helen Scharber and Heather Schoonover; title: Pt. 7. Building the solidarity economy through daily practice; title: Live your power : socially responsible consumption, work and investment /J. Matthaei; title: Household economic justice strategies / John Parker; title: Spirituality and economic transformation / J. Matthaei, David Korten, Nocola Torbett; title: pt. 8. The birth of the U.S. Solidarity Economy Network; title: Solidarity economic caucus I & II / Jenna Allard; title: The emerging solidarity economy; title: Solidarity economic organization in the U.S.; title: pt. 9. Appendices.