Book Cover -- Half-Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Tables -- Contributors -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Local-urban globalities and collective action -- Urban movements in the global flow -- Globalisation and collective action -- Bibliography -- 1 New social movements, poor people's movements and the struggle for social citizenship -- The return of the social -- The hidden social agenda of the new social movements -- How specific are poor people's movements? -- Poor people's movements in Germany? -- Towards a common agenda of contemporary social movements: social citizenship and beyond -- Bibliography -- 2 The miniaturisation of collective action -- Introduction -- Miniaturisation and social movements -- The politics of social exclusion and inclusion -- The parallel agencies of globalisation and locality -- Citizenship and social protest -- After identity and otherness: race and youth in New York City -- Beyond the convention of identity -- Conclusion: three theses for miniaturised futures -- Thesis 1 -- Thesis 2 -- Thesis 3 -- Bibliography -- 3 Marginalisation and political responses in the French context -- Marginalisation in the 1980s and 1990s in France -- The crisis of participation generates the revival of participation -- New forms of citizenship in Franc-Moisins -- An urban social movement of resistance: Right to Housing -- The housing situation in Paris -- The first experiments -- Square de la Réunion: 1990 -- The first success -- Quai de la Gare: 1991 -- Avenue René Coty: March 1993 -- Rue du Dragon: 1994 -- Institutional targets -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- 4 Globalisation, entrepreneurial cities and the social economy -- Globalisation: chaotic concept, chaotic process -- Globalisation and the welfare state -- The rise of the entrepreneurial city -- The illogic of globalisation -- The social economy.

Concluding remarks -- Notes -- Bibliography -- 5 Local finance in a global economy -- Introduction -- The social economy: Quebec -- Credit-driven economic development strategy -- The principles and realities of markets -- Deconstructing finance-the new picture -- The liberalisation of financial markets: the politics of globalisation -- Counter-movements in practice: alternative investment funds -- New entrepreneurial cities or democratising finance? -- Questions raised -- Notes -- Bibliography -- 6 Workfare and community economic development in Montreal -- Changing economic and social policy context -- Traditions of community organisation in Quebec -- 1960s to 1975 -- 1975 to 1990 -- Late 1980s to the present -- Contradictory practice -- Chic Resto-Pop -- CDECs -- Community, the state and globalisation -- Bibliography -- 7 Urban social movements in an era of globalisation -- New trends in local politics and oppositional movements -- The roles and options for urban movements in globalising cities -- Notes -- Bibliography -- 8 The fragmentation of social movements and social justice -- Local politics and the challenge of institutional innovation -- Social movements and the issue of local economic development -- Challenging the traditional forms of local politics -- Notes -- Bibliography -- 9 Local citizens' initiatives during the (East) German transformation -- Social movements in the GDR and in East Germany -- Citizens' initiatives in Leipzig -- Conclusion: new social movements in East Germany? -- Bibliography -- 10 The diversity of Eastern European social movements -- Introduction -- Opposition prior to the regime change -- Social movements during and after the regime change -- Poland -- Hungary -- The former Soviet Union -- Czechoslovakia -- Romania -- People's attitudes towards the regime change -- Attitudes towards the state of the economy.

Attitudes towards the change of the political system -- Opinion concerning democracy -- Peoples' attitudes to social movements -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.