Preface Introduction: Businesses with a Difference (Laurie Mook, Jack Quarter, and Sherida Ryan) Chapter 1: Historic Changes in the Canadian Credit Union Movement (Ian MacPherson) Chapter 2: Non-Financial Co-operatives in Canada: 1955 to 2005 (Jack Quarter, Laurie Mook and Jennifer Hann) Chapter 3: Co-operatives: Demutualization and Mutualization (Jorge Sousa) Chapter 4: The Difference Culture Makes: The Competitive Advantage of Reciprocal, Non-Monetary Exchange (Ana Maria Peredo) Chapter 5: Community Business Development (Greg MacLeod) Chapter 6: Businesses with a Difference in Latin America: Argentina's Worker-recuperated Enterprises and Venezuela's Socialist Production Units (Marcelo Vieta, Manuel Larrabure, and Daniel Schugurensky) Chapter 7: Top-Down and Bottom-Up: Challenges for Engaging Social Economic Businesses in Rural and Small Town Renewal (Laura Ryser and Greg Halseth) Chapter 8: Land, Self Determination and the Social Economy in Fort Albany First Nation (Jean-Paul Restoule, Sheila Gruner, and Edmund Metatawabin) Chapter 9: Social Entrepreneurship: A Comparative Perspective (Roger Spear) Chapter 10: Exploring Social Transformation, Financial Self Sufficiency and Innovation in Canadian Social Enterprises (Tessa Hebb, Judith Madill, and François Brouard) Chapter 11: Education for Social Economy (John Whitman).