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Table of Contents:
Introduction: The Quest for a Politically Effective Language of Everyday Life;

LIVES, LIVELIHOOD & STRATEGIES OF SURVIVAL.
Gavin Smith (Univ. of Toronto): Western European Informal Economies in Historical Perspective.
Jane Wheelock (Univ. of Newcastle upon Tyne, UK): Survival Strategies for Small Business Families in a Peripheral Local Economy: A Contribution to Institutional Value Theory.
Enzo Mingione (Univ. of Messina, Italy): Family Strategies and Social Development in Northern and Southern Italy.

THE COMMUNITY VERSUS THE MARKET: THE UPS & DOWNS OF PRACTICES OF RESISTANCE.
Ivan Laughlin (private consultant, Human Settlements Consultants, Ste. Augustine, Trinidad): The Sou Sou Land Possibility: Survival and Community Mobilization in Trinidad and Tobago.
Larissa Lomnitz & Ana Melnick (both of the Univ. Nacional Aut¢noma de M‚xico): Middle Class, Social Networks, and the 'Neo-Liberal' Model: The Case of Chilean School Teachers.
Menachem Rosner (Univ. of Haifa): Beyond the Market in a Market Economy: The Kibbutz Experience.

MAPPING NEW CITIZENSHIP PRACTICES.
Maurice Roche (Sheffield Univ., UK): Citizenship and Social Change: Beyond the Dominant Paradigm. S. Michael Miller (Boston Univ. & Commonwealth Institute, Boston): A New/Old Frontier of Inequalities: Respect and Self-Respect as Policy Issues.
Warren Magnusson (Univ. of Victoria): Dissidence and Insurgency: Municipal Foreign Policy in the 1980s.

Henri Lustiger-Thaler is professor of sociology at the School of Social Sciences and Human Sciences, Ramapo College of New Jersey in Mahwah, NJ, USA. Formerly of Concordia Univ. in Montreal. Daniel Salee is professor of political science & vice principal of the School of Community and Public Affairs, Concordia Univ. in Montreal