Co-Operative Canada: Empowering Communities and Sustainable Businesses

ISBN-13: 9780774827881 / Angielski / Twarda / 2014 / 304 str.

Brett Fairbairn; Nora Russell

Opis

A shift in US bank policy. A demonstration in Greece. A tsunami in Japan. These types of events can have profound effects on the economic well-being of Canadian communities. In such a heavily globalized environment, it may seem that only large corporations with access to transnational resources can operate successfully, but Canadian co-operatives demonstrate that this is not the case. Drawing on the results of a large research project that examined co-operatives in communities from coast to coast to coast, Co-operative Canada reveals how Canadians are collectively responding to the forces of globalization through local, community-owned enterprises.