Books by Greg MacLeod
From Mondragon To America - Experiments In Community Economic Development
Mondragon, in Spain, is the most successful worker-owned cooperative corporation in the world with sales of over $ 20 Billon and over 80,000 workers. Recognized by the United Nations as one of the top social economic experiments in the world, it includes over 100 enterprises making products as diverse as yoghurt to automobile parts. They have their own cooperative banka cooperative university and one of the largest retail chains in Spain.
Dr. Race Mathews is a long-time member of the Australian Labor Party and the Fabian Society, and has been a federal MP, a state MP and minister, a municipal councillor and chief of staff for Labor Leaders in the federal & state parliaments. He holds that local communities should now be placed in the centre of our economic and social life.
Dr. Jack Quarter examines business owners who use their firms as laboratories for social innovation. After an introduction to this phenomenon in an historica perspective and discussing the 19th-century British industrialist Robert Owen, he provides 11 case studies of contemporary innovators from six countries - the UK, US, the Netherlands, Germany, Canada, and New Zealand.
Jim Lotz reviews the history of community development as he has seen it and explores its potential and limitations. "The collected wisdom of a very wise man. You will emerge from this book with your understanding of communities and your hope for our stubborn species enhanced." - Desmond Morton
The emergence of the knowledge-based economy has revolutionized the way to do business. These articles provide a roadmap for success.
The philosophy, blueprint and working model of sustainable community economic development. Business for people - the community development corporation - humanity and business, the perfect blend of economics for our new global village.
A new history of women in Nova Scotia co-operatives, documents that co-operative equality was never extended to women on the same terms as men. Brotherhood Economics shows that the goal of equality for women remains relevant for today's activists in adult education, economic development, social work, and of course co-operatives.
A new people-oriented economy in which locally controlled economic development organizations have created secure new jobs that give people a sense of identity and purpose.
Dr. MacIntyre provides an examination of the crises in education and regional development, and of alternatives using public schools as mediating structures.