Cooperatives and Community Development

Vanna Gonzales (Ph.D. Political Science) is an Assistant Professor of Justice and Social Inquiry in the School of Social Transformation and a faculty affiliate of the Schools of Public Affairs and Transborder Studies at Arizona State University. Her research and teaching interests include social policy and reform, governance and organization theory, and the development of the social economy in Europe and the United States, with a particular focus on economic justice and social and cultural innovation. She is founder and coordinator of Social Economy Arizona and currently directs ASU’s Certificate in Economic Justice. Rhonda G. Phillips, Ph.D., AICP, CEcD is a professor, a planner and community economic developer focused on fostering innovative development approaches. Her research and service outreach includes assessing community well-being and quality-of-life outcomes, and balanced approaches to planning and development.

1. Introduction and Preface Rhonda Phillips and Vanna Gonzales 2. Cooperatives in Non-agricultural Sectors: Examining a Potential Community Development Tool Sanjib Bhuyan and F. Larry Leistritz 3. Cooperatives in Rural Community Development: A New Framework for Analysis Kimberly Zeuli, David Freshwater, Deborah Markley and David Barkley 4. A different kind of social enterprise: social cooperatives and the development of civic capital in Italy Vanna A. Gonzales 5. So Happy Together or Better Off Alone? Women's Economic Activities, Cooperative Work, and Employment in Rural Paraguay Patricia J. Cohn, Matthew S. Carroll and Jo Ellen Force 6. Are worker-owned cooperatives the brewing pots for social capital? Wilson Majee and Ann Hoyt 7. Collaboration, New Generation Cooperatives and Local Development Norman Walzer and Christopher D. Merrett 8. Cooperative Community Development: A Comparative Case Study of Locality-Based Impacts of New Generation Cooperatives Curtis W. Stofferahn