Alternative currency movements as a challenge to globalisation?
Subtitle: a case study of Manchester's local currency networks
By: Peter North.
Series: Ashgate economic geography series
Publisher: Ashgate Pub. Co.
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Aldershot; Burlington, VT
Language: eng
Number of pages: 186
Subjects: Local exchange trading systems -- England -- Manchester.; Local exchange trading systems.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: value: Introduction: money only has the value we give it?; value: Context and theoretical background; value: Developing a toolkit for understanding LETS: Social movement approaches; value: Investigating social movements; value: 'Dirty old town': urban change in Manchester; value: Manchester's alternative currency networks; value: LETS in Manchester; value: The politics of LETS; value: Self analysis: do members see LETS as a social movement?; value: Transformation: LETS and economic development; value: LETS and the inner city; value: Explorations in heterotopia: the micropolitics of money, work and community; value: Conclusions; value: Conclusions: the long term trajectory of LETS.