Solidarity economy : building alternatives for people and planet ; papers and reports from the U.S. Social Forum 2007
"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
xiv, 427 pages ; 23 cm
9780615194899, 0615194893
310102716
pt. 1. New visions and models
Why we need another world : introduction to neoliberalism / Helen Garrett-Peltier and Helen Scharber
Social economy & solidarity economy / Michael Lewis, Dan Swinney
Between global and local, alternatives to globalization / Sally Kohn
There is an alternative : economic democracy & participatory economics / Michael Albert, David Schweickart
Introduction to the economics of liberation : an overview of PROUT
pt. 2. Defining the solidarity economy through diverse practices
Building a solidarity economy from real world practices / Ethan Miller, Emily Kawano
Beyond reform or revolution, economic transformation in the U.S. [USA, United States] / Julie Matthaei ... et al
Building community economies any time any place : community economics collective / Stephen Healy, Janelle Cornwall, Ted White, Karen Werner. pt. 3. Building the solidarity economy through social movements
Feminist economic transformation / Julie Matthaei
Immigrants, globalization, and organizing for rights, solidarity and economic justice / Germai Medhanie
Just between us : women in struggle in Africa and the African Diaspora / Rose Brewer
pt. 4. Building the solidarity economy through cooperatives and socially responsible business
Growing transformative businesses / G. Medhanie, Jessica Gordon Nembhard, Ann Bartz, Adam Trott
Competing by cooperative in Italy : the Cooperative District of Imola / Matt Hancock
Another workplace is possible : Co-ops and workplace democracy [cooperatives] / Melissa Hanover. pt. 5. Building the solidarity economy through networking and community organizing
Solidarity economy as a strategy for changine the economy : Canadian Community Economic Development Network [Canada]
Ethel Cote ; Chantier l'Economie sociale
Nancy Neamtan ; Building the solidarity economy of Peru
Nedda Angulo Villareal
High road community development : public schools and the solidarity economy / Dan Swinney
pt. 6. Building the solidarity economy through public policy
Participatory budgeting : from Porto Alegre, Brazil to the U.S. / Michael Menser and Juscha Robinson
The Sky as a common resource / Matthew Riddle
U.S. Economic inequality and What we can do about it / Thomas Masterson and Suresh Naidu
You are what you eat [US food, farm system, policy] / Helen Scharber and Heather Schoonover. pt. 7. Building the solidarity economy through daily practice
Live your power : socially responsible consumption, work and investment /J. Matthaei
Household economic justice strategies / John Parker
Spirituality and economic transformation / J. Matthaei, David Korten, Nocola Torbett
pt. 8. The birth of the U.S. Solidarity Economy Network
Solidarity economic caucus I & II / Jenna Allard
The emerging solidarity economy
Solidarity economic organization in the U.S
pt. 9. Appendices