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Building a Community-Controlled Economy Jack Quarter

Building a Community-Controlled Economy By Jack Quarter

Building a Community-Controlled Economy by Jack Quarter


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Focusing on four co-operatives in the Evangeline region, an Acadian community on Prince Edward Island, the authors discuss why some co-operatives succeed while others fail.

Building a Community-Controlled Economy Summary

Building a Community-Controlled Economy: The Evangeline Co-operative Experience by Jack Quarter

This case study focuses on and analyses the formation of four co-operatives in the Evangeline region, a small Acadian community in the southwest part of Prince Edward Island. Defined by the authors as an 'integrated community-controlled economy,' the Evangeline community demonstrates the potential that a network of interrelated co-operatives has for community economic development. More specifically, the authors discuss why some co-operatives succeed while others fail, and propose a model that outlines the element necessary for any comprehensive community economic-development process.Wilkinson and Quarter look at the Evangeline experiment in the context of two seemingly contradictory trends today: globalization and decentralization. They argue that the initiatives undertaken by the Evangeline community fit within the trend toward decentralization and community control. The citizens of the Evangeline region have formed a community-controlled economy, refusing to accept the conventional wisdom that a small community is not viable in a modern economy. The authors suggest that the Evangeline experiment shows that communities which are being marginalized in the modern world can take matters into their own hands and succeed where externally driven development has failed.

About Jack Quarter

Jack Quarter is a professor and co-director of the Social Economy Centre at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, University of Toronto. He is the author of Canada's Social Economy and Crossing the Line. He edited How to Start a Worker's Co-op and co-edited Partners in Enterprise: The Worker Ownership Phenomenon. Paul Wilkinson is Community Outreach Manager with the Department of Social Services, Saskatoon Region.

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NLS9780802078575
9780802078575
0802078575
Building a Community-Controlled Economy: The Evangeline Co-operative Experience by Jack Quarter
New
Paperback
University of Toronto Press
1996-12-16
168
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