Placing the Social Economy

ISBN-13: 9780415260893 / Angielski / Miękka / 2002 / 160 str.

Ash Amin; Ray Hudson; Angus Cameron

Opis

Talk about the social economy and the term The Third Way has attained a level of household recognition, especially in America and Britain. Academics and commentators have debated the usefulness of the social economy as a restraint on capitalist excesses with some arguing that the third way is but a poor substitute for a welfare state. This book provides an account of real life experience in a social economy. By focusing on new evidence, it analyzes such themes as: the range of academic and policy expectation that have emerged in the developed world; the policies of New Labour in Britain; and the dynamics of social enterprises in Bristol, London, Middlesbrough and Glasgow. These critical assessments lead the authors to reflect in the future potential of the social economy and the possible policy changes that are necessary to maximise whatever opportunity the sector provides. This book's use and analysis of data should make it popular with academics in the fields of welfare, social and political economics.

Spis treści

Introduction, Chapter 1. The social economy in context, Chapter 2. Social economy, social exclusion, localisation, Chapter 3. Policy and practice in the UK social economy, Chapter 4. The corporatist social economy: Glasgow and Middlesbrough, Chapter5. The distributed social economy: Bristol and Tower Hamlets, Chapter 6. Prospects

O autorze

Ash Amin, Angus Cameron, Ray Hudson