Shaped by
globalization, societies are undergoing important
changes. As a consequence, new practices have emerged
and new importance is accorded to local economies.
The notion of a social economy was a practical
response to the impact of globalizaton on local
economies. Social economies were also meant to help
any negative impact resulting fom the downloading by
governments of their economis responsibilities.
Various community economic development corporations
were put into place as a result of these new trends.
Have these new local corporations helped in
alleviating the negative impact of the `new economy'?
These essays
deal with the social economy from different vantage
points and raise questions which reflect them. They
link practice and policy questions to issues such as
the reorganization of work, the shift of social
services to the community, and the strengths, limits
and potential of practice in the social economy.
Eric Shragge
is a teacher of social policy and community
organization at the School of Social Work, McGill
University. He is the editor of Community
Economic Development (Black Rose Books:
1997), and Bureaucracy and
Community with Linda Davies.
Jean-Marc
Fontan is a professor of sociology at Université du
Québec. Formerly, he coordinated the Institut
formation en développement économique communitaire.
He has co-edited Entre la métropolisation et le
village global, with Juan-Luis Klein, and
Diane-Gabrielle Tremblay (Presses de l'Université du
Québec, 1999).
Contributors
Table
of Contents
Volume 9 in Critical
Perspectives on Historic Issues, from the work of the Karl Polanyi
Institute of Political Economy at Concordia
University in Montréal.
205 pages,
bibliography
Paperback ISBN: 1-55164-162-3 $24.99
Hardcover ISBN: 1-55164-163-1 $53.99
Business
& Economics / Social Work
April 2000
