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 Venezia, Italy. He is the author of Economia e democrazia, (Padova: Il Poligrafo, 1998) and the editor of The Milano Papers. Essays in Societal Alternatives, (Montréal: Black Rose Books, 1997).
Jack Quarter is a professor at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education of the University of Toronto specializing in the study of community economic development, co-operatives and democratic workplaces. His most recent books include: Canada's Social Economy: Co-operatives, Non-Profits and Other Community Organizations (Lorimer); Crossing the Line: Unionized Employee Ownership and Investment Funds, (Lorimer); (with Paul Wilkinson) Building a Community-Controlled Economy: The Evangeline Co-operative Experience, (University of Toronto Press); (with Uri Leviatan, Hugh Oliver, eds.) Crisis in the Israeli Kibbutz, (Praeger); and forthcoming, Beyond the Bottom Line: Socially Innovative Business Owners, (McGill-Queen's).
Paul Leduc Browne is Senior Research Fellow at the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives. Before joining the centre in 1994, he worked as a translator and taught at several universities and colleges. He holds a doctorate in social and political thought from the University of Sussex. His publications include Love in a Cole World? The Voluntary Sector in an Age of Cuts, (CCPA), 1996.
Andrea Levy has a PhD in History from Concordia University in Montréal. A freelance writer and scholar, she has been active in urban politics for many years. She has published articles on the peace movement, the New Left, and the ecology movement.
Kathryn Church is an independent researcher based in Toronto. She has worked for many years in the areas of mental health and economic development. She holds a Ph.D. from University of Toronto, and is the author of Forbidden Narratives: Critical Autobiography as Social Science, (Gordon and Breach, 1995). She is the curator of the exhibition Fabrications: stitching ourselves together, an intimate autobiography of work women and wedding dresses in Central Alberta. The exhibition is touring Canada.
Benôit Lévesque has a PhD in sociology. He teaches sociology at the Université du Québec à Montréal. Specialist on economic sociologist and social movements, he co-published several books on social economy and socio-economic development in Québec. He is the coordinator of an important inter-universities research team, the Collectif de recherche sur les innovations sociales dans les entreprises et les syndicats (CRISES).
William A. Ninacs is an independent trainer and researcher working out of a worker co-operative in Victoriaville, Québec. He has been an active practitioner in the field of the social economy for 25 years as both an organizer and a manager. He currently teaches Business Development at New Hampshire College's Community Economic Development (CED) Program, while pursuing a PhD in social work at the Université Laval in Québec City.
Jean-Luc Souchet graduated in social sciences from l'Université de
Nantes (1996). He is an independent researcher and a journalist on social economy, He works mainly on the french department of Loire-Atlantique. He published several books on mutuality and social economy in the Loire-Atlantique department or on Nantes city.
Louis Favreau is a social worker and has a PhD in sociology. He is professor in social work at the Université du Québec à Hull. Specialize in the field of social movement and community development, he co-published several books on community development and social work in Québec. He is Rédacteur en chef of Économie et Solidarités and member of CRISES.
Michael Toye is a Montréal-based activist. He is currently involved in a number of cooperatives, including the worker cooperative Interface which does research, consulting and training on issues of local development and the social economy.