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The Straight Story on Farming

September 7, 2021 by Eliza Daley

As it was in the beginning… farmers need protection from those who have taken privileges, not protection by the military might of those privileged marauders. The least we could do is get the story straight.

Categories Food & Water, Society Tags agriculture, building resilient societies, cultural stories, farmers, history, work Leave a comment

The European cultural sector, pandemic precarity, and Universal Basic Income

August 12, 2021 by Christos Carras

What a UBI offers is a form of protection that does not trap people either outside employment (thanks to its universality) or inside employment (thanks to its being obligation-free).

Categories Act: Inspiration, Economy, Economy featured Tags arts, the precariat, Universal basic income, work Leave a comment

What Could Possibly Go Right?: Episode 46

July 29, 2021June 29, 2021 by Vicki Robin

Juliet Schor is Professor of Sociology at Boston College, a member of the MacArthur Foundation Connected Learning Research Network, and co-founder of the Center for a New American Dream. She addresses the question of “What Could Possibly Go Right?”

Categories Economy, Society, What Could Possibly Go Right? Tags basic income, consumption, economic inequality, new economy, work Leave a comment

‘The future sucks’: why the work you love won’t love you back

May 11, 2021 by Natalia Savelyeva

In Work Won’t Love You Back: How Devotion to Our Jobs Keeps Us Exploited, Exhausted and Alone, Jaffe draws on her deep experience reporting on workplace organising in the US to explore why love is not a necessary component of our jobs…

Categories Economy, Economy featured Tags building resilient economies, care work, the precariat, women's work, work, worker rights Leave a comment

Transforming Work, Reimagining Education

May 4, 2021 by Maria Albà Díaz

A proper reorganisation should be based on this understanding of work as just one of several realms of life; a life brimming with moments of connection, rest, labour, contemplation, education, and idleness.

Categories Act: Inspiration, Economy, Society, Society featured Tags alternative education, building resilient societies, Education, work Leave a comment

In Which There Is Work

May 6, 2021April 30, 2021 by Eliza Daley

I have strong opinions on the concept of work. Put simply, I do not agree with much of what passes for economic activity in the modern world, beginning with the definition of the word.

Categories Economy, Editor’s picks, Society Tags building resilient communities, provisioning, work Leave a comment

Review – Work Won’t Love You Back

March 29, 2021 by Marzena Zukowska

Love builds social movements. It is the connective tissue of collective action. And its potential is revolutionary.

Categories Act: Inspiration, Economy, Economy featured, Society Tags care work, labor movement, social movements, work Leave a comment

Resources for a better future: Work

March 29, 2022December 9, 2020 by Ekaterina Chertkovskaya

As Stefania Barca argues, we need to liberate ourselves from work, but also liberate work itself.

Categories Act: Inspiration, Economy, Society Tags building resilient societies, critiques of capitalism, new economy, work Leave a comment

Make life, not work: democratizing, decommodifying and remediating existence

October 28, 2020 by Stefanie Gerold

Democratizing and decommodifying work, and remediating the environment are essential to sustain life on this planet. However, this cannot be done through limiting ourselves to well-worn social democratic thinking.

Categories Economy, Economy featured, Society Tags new economy, work, worker rights Leave a comment
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