Social and Solidarity Economy [[electronic resource] ] : Beyond the Fringe

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910463412603321
• Autore: Utting Peter
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: London, : Zed Books, 2015
• ISBN: 1-78360-344-5
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (402 p.)
• Collana: Just Sustainabilities
• Disciplina: 338.9
• Soggetti: Economic development -- Social aspects; Economic policy; Economics -- Sociological aspects; Electronic books.
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di contenuto: Front Cover; Just Sustainabilities; About the Editor; Title Page; Copyright; Contents; Figures and Tables; Abbreviations and Acronyms; Preface; Introduction: The Challenge of Scaling Up Social and Solidarity Economy; Introduction; About this book; Part I: History, Theory and Strategy; 1: Social and Solidarity Economy in Historical Perspective; Introduction; Market and Solidarity in Nineteenth-Century Europe; Bringing in The Twentieth-Century State; Crisis, Civil Society and Social Innovation; Social and Solidarity Economy: A New Twenty-First-Century Synergy?; The Challenges of Realising Democratic Solidarity Conclusion: Towards Democratic Solidarity; 2: Prometheus, Trojan Horse or Frankenstein? Appraising the Social and Solidarity Economy ; Introduction; Defining the SSE; Theorising the SSE; Connecting The Dots: Liberal Philosophy and the SSE; Economics: The Playground of Liberal Assumptions; The SSE in Action: Thinking beyond the Individual; Conclusion: Towards an Ethical Value-Added Framework; 3: Beyond The Business Case: A Community Economies Approach to Gender, Development and Social Economy; Introduction; The Business Case for Gender and Development: Social Justice or 'Business as Usual'?Beyond the Business Case: Reimagining Economy and Development; Taking Back the Economy; Economic Difference; ; Community Economies and Subjects-in-becoming; Conclusion; 4: Can Social and Solidarity Economy Organisations Complement or Replace Publicly Traded Companies?; Introduction; The SSE Landscape and Publicly Traded Companies; Characteristics of SSE Organisations that Drive and Hinder Growth; Opportunities for Growth for SSE Organisations; Risks to SSE Organisations Associated with Growth ; Conclusion; 5: Scaling the Social and Solidarity Economy: Opportunities and Limitations of Fairtrade Practice Introduction; What Does Scaling the SSE Mean?; The Potential Contributions of Ft to Scaling the SSE; Limits of FT as a Vehicle for Scaling the SSE ; Conclusion; 6: The Potential and Limits of Farmers' Marketing Groups as Catalysts for Rural Development ; Introduction; The Nature and Impacts of Agricultural Cooperatives; Structural Tensions Affecting Agricultural Cooperatives; Coping with Tensions in Farmers' Organisations; Conclusion; 7: Institutionalising the Social and Solidarity Economy in Latin America Introduction; Three Countries, Three Processes; The Reality and Prospects of SSE: A Comparative Perspective; Conclusion; 8: Rebuilding Solidarity-driven Economies after Neoliberalism: The Role of Cooperatives and Local Developmental States in Latin America; Introduction; Cooperative Enterprises as the Core of the SSE Model; Cooperative Enterprise Development as an Aspect of Local Economic Development Policy; The LDS Model and Cooperative Enterprise Development in Latin America; Conclusion; 9: Enabling the Social and Solidarity Economy through the Co-Construction of Public Policy
• Sommario/riassunto: This collection brings together thinking and analysis of practice across the globe and connects local work to a macro-political-economic context.