Community Economic Development

Building for Social Change

Edited by Eric Shragge, Michael Toye

Having made major gains in practice and having built local capacities through innovation, Community Economic Development practice now stands at a crossroads. In Building for Social Change, Eric Shragge, Michael Toye and colleagues from across the country offer a timely critical examination of CED practices and debates.

This book is designed for CED practitioners, for others working in community-based organizations and those being trained. The goal of this book is to describe and analyze CED practice, primarily in Canada, but also the U.S. and Kenya, through a wide range of subjects, the evolution of its definitions and economic dimensions.

Contents

1. Introduction: CED and Social Change (Eric Shragge and Michael Toye)

2. CED in Canada: Review of Definitions and Profile of Practice (Michael Toye and Nicole Chaland)

3. Economics for CED Practitioners (John Loxley and Laura Lamb)

4. Taking Care of Business? (Andrea Levy)

5. Urban Perspectives on CED Practice: The Montreal Experience (Jean-Marc Fontan, Pierre Hamel, Richard Morin and Eric Shragge)

6. “Why Women?” (Melanie Conn)

7. Making Space: Aboriginal Perspectives of Community Economic Development (Wanda Wuttunee)

8. Aboriginal Economic Development in the Shadow of the Borg (David Newhouse)

9. Working Like Crazy on Working Like Crazy: Imag(in)ing CED Practice Through Documentary Film (Kathryn Church)

10. Putting Housing on the CED Agenda (Jill Hanley and Luba Serge)

11. Curtain Call: In Search of a Missing Actor for Sustainable Community Development (Michael Roseland)

12. Worker Ownership as a Strategy for Community Development (Gayle Broad and Linda Savory-Gordon)

13. State of the Art: The Third Option (Gertrude Anne MacIntyre and Jim Lotz)

14. CED Practice in the United States (Margaret Wilder, Jocelyn D. Taliaferro, Raheemah Jabbar-Bey and Bahira Sherif-Trask)

15. Creating Sustainable Local Economic Development Through Sustainable Partnerships: The BIP-PUP Process in Kitale, Kenya (Michael Lyons, Michael Majale and Paul Chege)

16. A Time of Globalization and Neoliberalism: The Franco-Ontarian Community, Community Economic Development and the Social Economy (David Welch)

·         Notes on Contributors

·         Index

About the Authors

Eric Shragge is the Principal of the School of Commuity and Public Affairs at Concordia University. His research interests include community economic development, workfare, and social economy. His publications include Community Economic Development: Building for Social Change with Michael Taye, Cape Breton University Press, 2006; Action Communautaire: derieves and possibilities, Eco-Societe, 2006, Activism and Social Change: Lessons for Commuity and Local Organizing, Broadview Press, 2003.

Michael Toye, Executive Director of CCEDNet, has a deep background in community economic development (CED). Upon earning his Master of Social Work at McGill, Michael helped set up two worker co-operatives that provide research, consulting and training services related to CED and the social economy.