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Challenging traditional notions of development, these essays examine bottom-up, community economic-development strategies in a wide variety of contexts-as a means of improving lives in rural, and inner-city settings, shaped and driven by women and by Aboriginal people, and aimed at employment creation for the most marginalized. Most authors have employed a participatory research methodology, but all of the essays are the Product of a broader, three-year community–university research collaboration. This same collaboration focuses on the strengths and difficulties of participatory, capacity-building strategies for those marginalized by the competitive, profit-seeking forces of capitalism. Many exciting initiatives with great potential are described and critically evaluated, along with on-the-ground descriptions of a wide variety of community economic-development projects, from urban aboriginal businesses to the rural and agricultural fields.

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Author:   John Loxley ,  Jim Silver ,  Kathleen Sexsmith
Publisher:   Fernwood Publishing Co Ltd
Imprint:   Fernwood Publishing Co Ltd
Dimensions:   Width: 1.50cm , Height: 0.20cm , Length: 2.30cm
Weight:   0.340kg
ISBN:  

9781552662212

ISBN 10:   1552662217
Pages:   240
Publication Date:   01 April 2008
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Introduction (Silver & Loxley) * The State of CED in Winnipeg (Loxley) * The Impact of Hydroelectric Development on Grand Rapids, Manitoba (Kulchyski &Neckoway) * Government Policy towards CED in Manitoba in the 1960s and 1970s (Fernandez) * Social Housing and CED Initiatives in Inner- City Winnipeg (Skelton, Selig & Deane) * Urban Aboriginal Community Development Silver, Ghorayshi, Hay & Klyne) * Improving the Lives and Livelihoods of Women through Socially Transformative Practice (Amyot) * CED to Reduce Young Women's Poverty and Poverty-Related Conditions (McCracken) * Moving Low-Income, Inner-city People into Good Jobs (Loewen & Silver) * Can Call Centres Contribute to Manitoba's CED? (Guard) * Aboriginal Students and the Digital Divide (Deane & Sullivan) * Aboriginal Labour and the Garment Industry in Winnipeg (Weist & Willmott) * Aboriginal Employment in the Banking Sector in Manitoba (Sexsmith & Pettman) * Manitoba Alternative Food Production and Farm Marketing Models (Doucette & Koroluk) * Agricultural Land Trusts Hamilton) * Economics for CED Practitioners Loxley & Lamb) * Local Participation and Democratic State Restructuring (Sheldrick) * Reflections on Accomplishments and Challenges (Loxley & Silver)

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JOHN LOXLEY is professor of economics and co-ordinator of research, Global Political Economy Program, University of Manitoba. he specializes in international finance, international development and community economic development, in particular alternatives to orthodox economic theory and policy. he is the author of Alternative Budgets; Interdependence, Disequilibrium and Growth; and Debt and Disorder. JIM SILVER is a professor of politics, chair of the Department of Politics and co-director of the new Urban and Inner city Studies Program at the University of Winnipeg. his most recent book is In Their Own Voices: Building Urban Aboriginal Communities. KATHLEEN SEXSMITH is studying international development at the University of Oxford.

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