Social Economy
Health and Welfare in Four Canadian Provinces
The fundamental principles of the social economy are solidarity, democratic organization of work, and user and community participation. Based on a three-year study carried out by researchers at the Université du Québec ” Montréal, Université de Moncton, the University of Ottawa and the University of Regina, the essays here testify to the value and diversity of the social economy sector in four Canadian provinces. Researchers explore the realities of the third sector in the fields of health and welfare in changing social and economic conditions. Authors of Social Economy argue that the crisis of the welfare state is an opportunity for the development and growth of a solidarity-based economic model involving new relationships between the social economy sector, the state, the market and the informal economy.
About the book
The fundamental principles of the social economy are solidarity, democratic organization of work, and user and community participation. Based on a three-year study carried out by researchers at the Université du Québec ” Montréal, Université de Moncton, the University of Ottawa and the University of Regina, the essays here testify to the value and diversity of the social economy sector in four Canadian provinces. Researchers explore the realities of the third sector in the fields of health and welfare in changing social and economic conditions. Authors of Social Economy argue that the crisis of the welfare state is an opportunity for the development and growth of a solidarity-based economic model involving new relationships between the social economy sector, the state, the market and the informal economy.
Contents
- About the Contributors
- Preface to the English Edition
- Preface
- Introduction (Louise Tremblay, François Aubry, Christian Jetté and Yves Vaillancourt)
- Regulation Based on Solidarity: A Fragile Emergence in Quebec (Yves Vaillancourt, François Aubry, Christian Jetté and Louise Tremblay)
- The Trials of New Brunswick’s Emerging Social Economy (Éric Forgues, Marie-Thérèse Seguin, Omer Chouinard, Guylaine Poissant and Guy Robinson)
- In the Shadow of the Market: Ontario’s Social Economy in the Age of Neo-liberalism (Paul Leduc Browne and David Welch)
- Personal Services and the Third Sector in Saskatchewan (Luc Thériault and Carmen Gill with the collaboration of Yussuf Kly)
- Conclusion (François Aubry, Christian Jetté, Louise Tremblay and Yves Vaillancourt)
- Notes
- Bibliography