- Title
- Experimenting with economic possibilities: ethical economic decision-making in two Australian community enterprises
- Creator
- Cameron, Jenny
- Relation
- The Social Economy: International Perspectives on Economic Solidarity p. 92-115
- Relation
- http://www.zedbooks.co.uk/book/paperback/2009/social-economy
- Publisher
- Zed Books
- Resource Type
- book chapter
- Date
- 2009
- Description
- Community (or social) enterprises are a form of endeavour within the social economy that can be framed in two ways, with implications for how we view the economy more generally. In one framing community enterprises are a way that communities respond to the negative impacts of economic change. Community enterprises do this by providing employment opportunities and much-needed social services, especially in areas that have been economically and socially marginalized. In this view, the economy (particularly through capitalist economic activity and related process of economic globalization) acts on people and communities, and community enterprises are one small means of responding. In a second framing, community enterprises are an avenue for communities to act on concerns about economic equity, social justice and environmental sustainability. Community enterprises are a way of experimenting with forms of economy that explicitly take into account social and environmental questions. In this view, the economy is something that can be actively shaped by people and communities as a means of building not only a better present but a better future.
- Subject
- community enterprises; economic change; social services
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/918550
- Identifier
- uon:8646
- Identifier
- ISBN:9781848132818
- Language
- eng
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