Danny Burns, Colin C. Williams, and Jan Windebank.
.PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC
Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.
New York :
Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.
Palgrave Macmillan,
Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.
2004.
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item
x, 163 pages ;
Dimensions
23 cm
INTERNAL BIBLIOGRAPHIES/INDEXES NOTE
Text of Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 148-160) and index.
CONTENTS NOTE
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1. Arguments for Self-Help and Mutual Aid -- 2. Conceptualising Community Self-Help -- 3. The Extent of Community Self-Help -- 4. A Route into Employment: Community Self-Help as a Springboard -- 5. A Complement to the Market and State: Community Self-Help as a Coping Strategy -- 6. An Alternative to the Market and State: Community Self-Help as a Challenge -- 7. Supporting and Developing Community Self-Help -- 8. Community Self-Help in Visions of Future Political Organisation.
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SUMMARY OR ABSTRACT
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"Self-help and mutual aid are often seen as minor activities which take place at the margins of society. Community Self-Help shows that they are extremely widespread and argues that they should be considered as the third main sector of social and economic organisation (alongside the state and the market). Reciprocity, which is the central feature of mutual aid, is seen not only as the underpinning driver of social evolution, but also the basis on which progressive social policy can be built. Drawing on thinkers as diverse as Kropotkin, Smiles, Green and Putnam, the authors build a coherent rationale for contemporary community self-help. The book also looks in some detail at the different ways in which community self-help can be harnessed as a route to the mainstream, a complement to it, or as an alternative, and offers some guidance on how to nurture and support community self-help."--Jacket.