Cooperatives and Community Development

Vanna Gonzales, Rhonda Phillips

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2014
• Print ISBN: 9780415634120
• eBook ISBN: 9781317850571
• Topic: Architecture
• Subtopic: Urban Planning & Landscaping

In celebration of cooperatives' contributions to community development processes and outcomes worldwide, the United Nations designated 2012 as the Year of the Cooperative. Today, as in the past, cooperatives have proved effective in bringing people and organizations together to accomplish a broad array of goals related to fostering social and economic innovation, protecting communities against poor living and working conditions, and promoting a better quality of life. Analytically, as both a movement and as a business model, cooperatives hold much potential for generating the types of synergies, collaboration, and productive and social processes that enable community development to thrive in a variety of local, regional and global contexts. This collection of articles chronicles new developments in the ways in which cooperatives are used in a diverse array of community contexts. They offer insight as to what these changes mean, both empirically and theoretically, for community development in the decades to come.

This book is a compilation of articles published in the journal Community Development.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half Title
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Table of Contents
• Citation Information
• 1. Linking Past, Present and Future: An Introduction to Cooperatives and Community Development
• 2. Cooperatives in Non-agricultural Sectors: Examining a Potential Community Development Tool
• 3. Cooperatives in Rural Community Development: A New Framework for Analysis
• 4. A different kind of social enterprise: social cooperatives and the development of civic capital in Italy
• 5. So Happy Together or Better Off Alone? Women’s Economic Activities, Cooperative Work, and Empowerment in Rural Paraguay
• 6. Are worker-owned cooperatives the brewing pots for social capital?
• 7. Collaboration, New Generation Cooperatives and Local Development
• 8. Cooperative Community Development: A Comparative Case Study of Locality-Based Impacts of New Generation Cooperatives
• Index