Community Economic Development

Community Economic Development
Author: Graham Haughton
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 278
Release: 2013-12-16
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 1136038485

This important book examines the ways in which community economic development can contribute to local and regional regeneration. It presents a unique overview of the state of contemporary British practice in this important policy area and provides a series of fresh, theoretical, methodological and empirical insights which help us to understand ways in which communities are facing up to the challenges of devising and bringing about their own revitalisation. Community Economic Development is underpinned by the argument that much conventional regeneration work represents at best a short-term fix rather than a long-term sustainable solution to the problems of socially excluded communities. The emphasis of the book is largely on the British experience with contributions from a rich mix of new and established academics and practitioners.

Neo-Liberalism, State Power and Global Governance

Neo-Liberalism, State Power and Global Governance
Author: Simon Lee
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 268
Release: 2007-09-09
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1402062206

This book explores the relationship between neo-liberalism, state power and global governance, exploring national differences in the exercise of state power in a variety of industrialized and developing economies. Among the strengths of this volume are its detailed global scope, its range of case studies in diverse policy areas, its analysis and critique of neo-liberalism, in theory and practice, and its impact upon state power and global governance.

A Commodified World

A Commodified World
Author: Colin C. Williams
Publisher: Zed Books
Total Pages: 324
Release: 2005-03-04
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9781842773550

This volume provides a critique of the assumption of increasing commodification in the modern economy.

Informal Employment in Advanced Economies

Informal Employment in Advanced Economies
Author: Colin C. Williams
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 228
Release: 2002-09-11
Genre: Science
ISBN: 1134700881

Re-Placing Informal Employment challenges many of the popular myths surrounding informal economic activities, and offers a radical reassesment of their extent, growth, location and nature. The book uses case studies from the UK, France, Italy, the Netherlands, the US and Canada to challenge: * the popular belief that informal employment is growing throughout the advanced economies * the myth that this work is undertaken mostly by marginalized groups * the dominant view that we should replace informal with formal employment through enforcement of regulations. Examining policy options and their consequences, the authors show that conventional approaches only increase inequalities and that a radical alternative solution is essential.

Re-Thinking the Future of Work

Re-Thinking the Future of Work
Author: Colin C. Williams
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages: 360
Release: 2007-02-28
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0230207936

How will work be organised in the future? With its global perspective and critical approach, Re-Thinking the Future of Work provides not only an overview and examination of the array of competing visions, but also a radical rethink about the direction of change.

A Postcapitalist Politics

A Postcapitalist Politics
Author: J. K. Gibson-Graham
Publisher: U of Minnesota Press
Total Pages: 317
Release:
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1452908834

Is there life after capitalism? In this creatively argued follow-up to their book The End of Capitalism (As We Knew It), J. K. Gibson-Graham offer already existing alternatives to a global capitalist order and outline strategies for building alternative economies. A Postcapitalist Politics reveals a prolific landscape of economic diversity—one that is not exclusively or predominantly capitalist—and examines the challenges and successes of alternative economic interventions. Gibson-Graham bring together political economy, feminist poststructuralism, and economic activism to foreground the ethical decisions, as opposed to structural imperatives, that construct economic “development” pathways. Marshalling empirical evidence from local economic projects and action research in the United States, Australia, and Asia, they produce a distinctive political imaginary with three intersecting moments: a politics of language, of the subject, and of collective action. In the face of an almost universal sense of surrender to capitalist globalization, this book demonstrates that postcapitalist subjects, economies, and communities can be fostered. The authors describe a politics of possibility that can build different economies in place and over space. They urge us to confront the forces that stand in the way of economic experimentation and to explore different ways of moving from theory to action. J. K. Gibson-Graham is the pen name of Katherine Gibson and Julie Graham, feminist economic geographers who work, respectively, at the Australian National University in Canberra and the University of Massachusetts Amherst.

'An offer you can't refuse'

'An offer you can't refuse'
Author: Lødemel, Ivar
Publisher: Policy Press
Total Pages: 379
Release: 2001-01-24
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1847425240

In the last decade, developed welfare states have witnessed a pendulum swing away from unconditional entitlement to social assistance, towards greater emphasis on obligations and conditions tied to the receipt of financial aid. Through administrative reforms, conditions of entitlement have been narrowed. With the introduction of compulsory work for recipients the contract between the state and uninsured unemployed people is changing. The product of research funded by the European Union, this book compares 'work-for-welfare' - or workfare - programmes objectively for the first time. It considers well publicised schemes from the United States alongside more overlooked examples of workfare programmes from six European countries: France, Germany, the Netherlands, Norway, Denmark and Britain. It is the first time that details of workfare programmes have been collated in such an easily accessible format. 'An offer you can't refuse' provides an analysis of the ideological debates that surround compulsory work programmes and gives a detailed overview of the programmes implemented in each country, including their political and policy contexts and the forces that have combined to facilitate their implementation. Similarities and differences between programmes are explored. Explanations for differences and lessons for policy makers are discussed.

The Emergence of Social Enterprise

The Emergence of Social Enterprise
Author: Carlo Borzaga
Publisher: Psychology Press
Total Pages: 400
Release: 2004
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9780415339216

This book investigates the remarkable growth of the 'third sector', focusing on social enterprises, their characteristics, their contribution and their future prospects.

Social Reproduction, Solidarity Economy, Feminisms and Democracy

Social Reproduction, Solidarity Economy, Feminisms and Democracy
Author: Christine Verschuur
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 285
Release: 2021-09-06
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 3030715310

This book contributes to timely debates on the conditions of resistance and changes with the aim to offer a ray of hope in times of ecological, economic, social and democracy crisis worldwide. In the context of the crisis of social reproduction, impoverishment and growing inequalities, myriads of women-led grass-root initiatives are bubbling up. They reorganize social reproduction; redefine the meaning of work and value; explore new ways of doing economics and politics; construct solidarity-driven social relationships and combat their subordination. In doing so, these initiatives challenge the patriarchal, financialized and dehumanizing capitalist system and offer transformative, sustainable paths for feminist social change. Drawing on fine-grained ethnographies in Latin America and India, this book sheds light on women’s daily struggles, their difficulties, contradictions, fragilities, and also their successes and achievements. This book seeks to inspire activists, researchers and policy-makers in the field of feminism and solidarity economy to contribute to amplifying the movement, which rests on the articulation of the various initiatives.