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1 online resource (292 pages) : illustrations |
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text file |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction: Where We Stand -- Place, Enterprise, and Community / Brett Fairbairn -- Part 1: Globalization, Autonomy, and Cohesion. Globalization, Co-operatives, and Social Cohesion / William D. Coleman -- "Nuna Is My Body": What Northerners Can Teach about Social Cohesion / Isobel M. Findlay. |
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Part 2: Social Enterprises and Networks. "I Felt That I Had Lost Myself": Credit Unions, Economies, and the Construction of Locality / Brett Fairbairn with Rob Dobrohoczki -- Autonomy and Identity: Constraints and Possibilities in Western Canada's Co-operative Retailing System / Jason Heit, Murray Fulton, and Brett Fairbairn -- Social Cohesion in Times of Crisis: Atlantic Canada's Consumers' Community Co-operative / Leslie H. Brown. |
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Part 3: New Partnerships and Models. Reclaiming Community: Co-operatives and Sectoral Governance in Quebec Forestry / Patrick Gingras and Mario Carrier -- Rebuilding "Home" in a Transient World: Globalization, Social Exclusion, and Innovations in Co-operative Housing / Mitch Diamantopoulos and Jorge Sousa -- Co-operation Reinvented: New Partnerships in MultiStakeholder Co-operatives / Jean-Pierre Girard and Geneviève Langlois -- "To See Our Communities Come Alive Again with Pride": (Re)Inventing Co-operatives for First Nations' Needs / Lou Hammond Ketilson -- Imagination and the Future: Learning from Social Enterprises / Brett Fairbairn -- Appendix: The Enterprise with Many Names: Establishing a Common Language / Brett Fairbairn. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Cooperative societies -- Canada -- Case studies.
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Cooperative societies. |
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Canada. |
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Case studies.
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| Subject |
Social entrepreneurship -- Canada -- Case studies.
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Social entrepreneurship. |
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Community development -- Canada -- Case studies.
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Community development. |
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Electronic books.
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Electronic books.
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Case studies.
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| Added Author |
Fairbairn, Brett, 1959- author, editor.
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Russell, Nora, editor.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Co-operative Canada. Vancouver, B.C. : UBC Press, [2014] 9780774827881 (OCoLC)875520866 |
| ISBN |
9780774827904 (electronic book) |
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0774827904 (electronic book) |
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9780774827911 |
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0774827912 |
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9780774827881 (bound) |
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0774827882 (bound) |
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