Preface
Introduction: Businesses with a Difference (Laurie Mook, Jack
Quarter, and Sherida Ryan)
Chapter 1: Historic Changes in the Canadian Credit Union Movement
(Ian MacPherson)
Chapter 2: Non-Financial Co-operatives in Canada: 1955 to 2005 (Jack Quarter,
Laurie Mook and Jennifer Hann)
Chapter 3: Co-operatives: Demutualization and
Mutualization (Jorge Sousa)
Chapter 4: The Difference Culture Makes: The Competitive Advantage
of Reciprocal, Non-Monetary Exchange (Ana Maria Peredo)
Chapter 5: Community Business
Development (Greg MacLeod)
Chapter 6: Businesses with a Difference in Latin America:
Argentina’s Worker-recuperated Enterprises and Venezuela’s Socialist Production Units
(Marcelo Vieta, Manuel Larrabure, and Daniel Schugurensky)
Chapter 7: Top-Down and Bottom-Up:
Challenges for Engaging Social Economic Businesses in Rural and Small Town Renewal (Laura Ryser and
Greg Halseth)
Chapter 8: Land, Self Determination and the Social Economy in Fort Albany First
Nation (Jean-Paul Restoule, Sheila Gruner, and Edmund Metatawabin)
Chapter 9: Social
Entrepreneurship: A Comparative Perspective (Roger Spear)
Chapter 10: Exploring Social
Transformation, Financial Self Sufficiency and Innovation in Canadian Social Enterprises (Tessa
Hebb, Judith Madill, and François Brouard)
Chapter 11: Education for Social Economy
(John Whitman)