Placing the Social Economy

by Amin; Ash

• ISBN13: 9780415260886
• ISBN10: 0415260884
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2002-06-28
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

In recent years there has been a great deal of discussion about the social economy and the term 'The Third Way' has attained a level of household recognition, especially in America and Britain. Academics and commentators have debated the usefulness of the social economy as a restraint on capitalist excesses with some arguing that the 'third way' is but a poor substitute for a welfare state. This book provides a refreshing and accessible account of real life experience in a social economy. By focusing on new evidence, this book critically analyzes such themes as: *the range of academic and policy expectation that have emerged in recent years in the developed world *the policies of New Labour in Britain *the dynamics of social enterprises in Bristol, London. Middlesbrough and Glasgow.

Author Biography

Angus Cameron is lecturer in the Department of Geography at the University of Leicester.

Table of Contents

List of illustrations	vi
Preface	vii
The social economy in context	1	(15)
Social economy, social exclusion, localization	16	(15)
Policy and practice in the UK social economy	31	(20)
The corporatist social economy: Glasgow and Middlesbrough	51	(32)
The distributed social economy: Bristol and Tower Hamlets	83	(33)
Prospects	116	(10)
Appendix: the sample projects	126	(5)
Notes	131	(5)
Bibliography	136	(7)
Index	143