Building a Community-Controlled Economy: The Evangeline Co-operative Experience

by Paul Wilkinson and Jack Quarter

Book Overview

This case study focuses on and analyses the formation of four co-operatives in the Evangeline region, a small Acadian community in the southwest part of Prince Edward Island.

Defined by the authors as an 'integrated community-controlled economy, ' the Evangeline community demonstrates the potential that a network of interrelated co-operatives has for community economic development. More specifically, the authors discuss why some co-operatives...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0802078575
• ISBN13: 9780802078575
• Release Date: December 1996
• Publisher: University of Toronto Press
• Length: 168 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.4" x 9.0"