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Brett Fairbairn (Ed.) - Co-operative Canada: Empowering Communities and Sustainable Businesses - 9780774827881 - V9780774827881
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Co-operative Canada: Empowering Communities and Sustainable Businesses

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Description for Co-operative Canada: Empowering Communities and Sustainable Businesses Hardback. A comprehensive look at how Canadians are responding to the forces of globalization through collectively owned enterprises. Editor(s): Fairbairn, Brett T.; Russell, Nora. BIC Classification: JFFS; JFSG; JPA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 23. Weight in Grams: 544.

A shift in US bank policy. A demonstration in Greece. A tsunami in Japan. In recent times, these kinds of events have had profound effects on the economic well-being of Canadians. In such a heavily globalized environment, it may seem that only large corporations with access to transnational resources can operate successfully, but Co-operative Canada demonstrates that this is not the case.

Despite economic pressures following the 2008 recession, co-operatives in Canada are thriving. In fact, there are approximately nine thousand co-ops across the nation with a combined membership of about 18 million members – more than half the population of ... Read more

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 using the co-operative model to collectively respond to the forces of globalization through local, community-owned enterprises. It does this through specific examples that vividly describe the pragmatic realities of the communities these co-ops serve.

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Product Details

Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
University of British Columbia Press Canada
Condition
New
Number of Pages
304
Place of Publication
Vancouver, Canada
ISBN
9780774827881
SKU
V9780774827881
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 7 to 11 working days
Ref
99-1

About Brett Fairbairn (Ed.)
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 Fellow in Co-operative Thought and Ideas at the University’s Centre for the Study of Co-operatives. Nora Russell is the publications/communications officer at the Centre for the Study of Co-operatives at the University of ... Read more

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