Defining the term “solidarity economy” can be difficult: it has become a kind of catch-all to describe everything from worker-owned cooperatives to open source software to complementary currencies. Surprisingly, the ideas promoted in the solidarity economy aren’t very well known in the English-speaking world, though they’ve been gaining a foothold in academia and civil society groups since the turn of the century. Quebec, Canada’s French language-majority province, is where the concept began to get traction…
Here’s what a solidarity economy looks like
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