TABLE OF CONTENTS Chapter 1: Eric Shragge and Jean-Marc Fontan Tendencies, Tensions and Visions in the Social Economy Chapter 2: Enzo Mingione Market and Society: The Social Embeddedment of the Economy Chapter 3: Michele Cangiani About the Possibility of Reversing the Process of Commodification: The Scope of the 'Non-profit Economy Chapter 4: Jack Quarter The Social Economy and the Neo-Conservative Agenda Chapter 5: Paul Leduc Browne The Neo-Liberal Uses of the Social Economy: Non-Profit Organizations and Workfare in Ontario Chapter 6: Andrea Levy Jobs, Work, and the Social Economy Chapter 7: Kathryn Church Alternative Economies: Building the Social from the Economic Chapter 8: Benoit Levesque and Bill Ninacs The Social Economy in Canada: The Quebec Experience Chapter 9: Bill Ninacs Social Economy: A Practitioner's Viewpoint Chapter 10: Jean-Luc Souchet The Mutual Insurance System in Loire-Atlantic: Ten Generations of Supportive Innovations Chapter 11: Louis Favreau Globalization and the Social Economy: A North-South Perspective Chapter 12: Michael Toye Selected Resources on the Social Economy NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS Eric Shragge teaches social policy and community organization at the School of Social Work, McGill University. He is the editor of Community Economic Development: In Search of Empowerment , (Black Rose Books, 1997) and Workfare: Ideology for a New Underclass , (Garamond, 1997). He is able to escape from the university by working with grassroots community organizations. Jean-Marc Fontan has a PhD in sociology from the University of Montreal. He is a professor-researcher at the department of sociology of University of Quebec in Montreal. He works mainly on local development and community economic development. He co-published en 1994 an important book on local development in Quebec. He is member of the Collectif de recherche inter-universitaire sur les transformations et les regulations economiques et sociales (CRITERES).

Enzo Mingione is Professor of rural and urban sociology at the University of Messina, Italy. Michele Cangianiteaches economic sociology at the Universita di Venezi.