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Challenging traditional notions of development, the essays in this book examine community economic development strategies in a variety of contexts, for example, as a means of improving lives in northern, rural and inner-city settings.
List 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)
About the author
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.
