Social Science Regional Studies
Co-operative Canada
Empowering Communities and Sustainable Businesses
- Publisher
- UBC Press
- Initial publish date
- Oct 2014
- Category
- Regional Studies, Globalization, General
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Hardback
- ISBN
- 9780774827881
- Publish Date
- Oct 2014
- List Price
- $95.00
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Paperback / softback
- ISBN
- 9780774827898
- Publish Date
- Mar 2015
- List Price
- $34.95
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eBook
- ISBN
- 9780774827911
- Publish Date
- Aug 2014
- List Price
- $34.95
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Description
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.
About the authors
Brett Fairbairn is a professor in the Johnson-Shoyama Graduate School of Public Policy at the University of Saskatchewan specializing in democratic governance and history. He is also a Fellow in Co-operative Thought and Ideas at the University’s Centre for the Study of Co-operatives.