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TABLE OF CONTENTS
Chapter 1: Eric Shragge and Jean-Marc Fontan
Tendencies, Tensions and Visions in the Social Economy
Chapter 2: Enzo Mingione
Market and Society: The Social Embeddedment of the Economy
Chapter 3: Michele Cangiani
About the Possibility of Reversing the Process of Commodification: The Scope of the `Non-profit Economy
Chapter 4: Jack Quarter
The Social Economy and the Neo-Conservative Agenda
Chapter 5: Paul Leduc Browne
The Neo-Liberal Uses of the Social Economy: Non-Profit Organizations and Workfare in Ontario
Chapter 6: Andrea Levy
Jobs, Work, and the Social Economy
Chapter 7: Kathryn Church
Alternative Economies: Building the Social from the Economic
Chapter 8: Benoît Lévesque and Bill Ninacs
The Social Economy in Canada: The Québec Experience
Chapter 9: Bill Ninacs
Social Economy: A Practitioner's Viewpoint
Chapter 10: Jean-Luc Souchet
The Mutual Insurance System in Loire-Atlantic: Ten Generations of Supportive Innovations
Chapter 11: Louis Favreau
Globalization and the Social Economy: A North-South Perspective
Chapter 12: Michael Toye
Selected Resources on the Social Economy
NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS
Eric Shragge teaches social policy and community organization at the School of Social Work, McGill University. He is the editor of Community Economic Development: In Search of Empowerment, (Black Rose Books, 1997) and Workfare: Ideology for a New Underclass, (Garamond, 1997). He is able to escape from the university by working with grassroots community organizations.
Jean-Marc Fontan has a PhD in sociology from the University of Montréal. He is a professor-researcher at the department of sociology of University of Québec in Montréal. He works mainly on local development and community economic development. He co-published en 1994 an important book on local development in Québec. He is member of the Collectif de recherche inter-universitaire sur les transformations et les régulations économiques et sociales (CRITERES).
Enzo Mingione is Professor of rural and urban sociology at the University of Messina, Italy.
Michele Cangiani teaches economic sociology at the Universitá di Venezi
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