List of tables

Notes on contributors

Acknowledgements

Introduction: urban social movements -- local thematics, global spaces

Pierre Hamel

Henri Lustiger-Thaler

Margit Mayer

PART I Urban social movements: global impacts and the new urban citizenship

New social movements, poor people's movements and the struggle for social citizenship

Roland Roth

The miniaturisation of collective action: ghettos and global space

Henri Lustiger-Thaler

Marginalisation and political responses in the French context

Sophie Body-Gendrot

PART II The urban economy in global context

Globalisation, entrepreneurial cities and the social economy

Bob Jessop

Local finance in a global economy: palliative or panacea?

Marguerite Mendell

Workfare and community economic development in Montreal: community and work in the late twentieth century

Ericshragge

Jean-Marc Fontan

PART III Urban social movements and the global future

Urban social movements in an era of globalisation

Margit Mayer

The fragmentation of social movements and social justice: beyond the traditional forms of localism

Pierre Hamel

Local citizens' initiatives during the (East) German transformation

Dieter Rink

The diversity of Eastern European social movements: urban movements, new social movements and nationalist movements in post-socialist societies

Katy Pickvance

Index