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[[California news]]: Nurses Join Forces With Labor Union to Launch Healthcare Platform Cooperative, Aug 21 <ref>[https://www.shareable.net/blog/nurses-join-forces-with-labor-union-to-launch-healthcare-platform-cooperative @Shareable]</ref><br clear=left>
 
== 2017 ==
 
Latest figures reveal more than 40 million people are living in slavery, Sep 19 <ref>[https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2017/sep/19/latest-figures-reveal-more-than-40-million-people-are-living-in-slavery The Guardian]</ref>
 
[[File:Allotments - geograph.org.uk Sheffield.jpg|140px|left]]
Bread Funds: A pioneering model of self-organising among the self-employed, Apr 25 <ref>[https://www.thersa.org/discover/publications-and-articles/rsa-blogs/2017/04/bread-funds-a-pioneering-model-of-self-organising-among-the-self-employed RSA]</ref><br clear=left>
 
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[[New York City]]: The Freelance Contract Gives Gig Workers Fair Working Terms, Mar 20 <ref>[http://www.shareable.net/blog/the-freelance-contract-gives-gig-workers-fair-working-terms @Shareable]</ref><br clear=left>
 
Launching a Cooperative Isn't Easy — Here's a Resource to Get You Started, Feb 15 <ref>[http://www.shareable.net/blog/launching-a-cooperative-isnt-easy-%E2%80%94-heres-a-resource-to-get-you-started @Shareable]</ref>
 
== 2016 ==
 
Maids, brick makers, children: the faces of slavery in 2016 driving change. Dec 27 <ref>[http://news.trust.org/item/20161227000553-bgw75/ news.trust.org]</ref>
 
WorkerTech: fighting for better work through technology, Dec 19 <ref>[https://digitalsocial.eu/blog/44/workertech-fighting-for-better-work-through-technology digitalsocial.eu]</ref>
 
New Report Says the Number of Coworking Spaces Grew Over 10x in 5 Years, Dec 13 <ref>[http://www.shareable.net/blog/new-report-says-the-number-of-coworking-spaces-grew-over-10x-in-5-years @Shareable]</ref>
 
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An international protocol on forced labour has entered into force, a major milestone in the fight to end the practice, which the United Nations labour agency estimates victimizes 21 million people worldwide, Nov 10 <ref>[http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=55518#.WCbgMbXfWaO un.org]</ref> 
 
How Freelancers Are Reinventing Work Through New Collective Enterprises, Oct 11 <ref>[http://www.shareable.net/blog/how-freelancers-are-reinventing-work-through-new-collective-enterprises @Shareable]</ref>
 
What happened after Sweden introduced a six hour work day, Sep 4 <ref>[http://indy100.independent.co.uk/article/what-happened-after-sweden-introduced-a-six-hour-work-day--W1bR6djCD_b indy100.independent.co.uk]</ref>
 
A Shareable Explainer: What is a Platform Co-op? August 16 <ref>[http://www.shareable.net/blog/a-shareable-explainer-what-is-a-platform-co-op @Shareable]</ref>
 
The 13 cities with the best work-life balance in the world, May 29 <ref>[http://uk.businessinsider.com/world-cities-with-the-best-work-life-balance-2016-5 uk.businessinsider.com]</ref>
 
== 2015 ==
 
Stephanie Rearick on Mutual Aid Networks and Local Solidarity, September 10 <ref>[http://commonstransition.org/stephanie-rearick-on-mutual-aid-networks-and-local-solidarity/ Commons Transition]</ref>
 
ILO: Only a quarter of workers have permanent jobs, May 19 <ref>[http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-32790892 BBC News]</ref>
 
Growth ended for many people around the globe in 2008. According to the International Labour Organization (ILO), if you earn the median wage in [[Kenya]], your real income has declined 26 percent from 2008 through 2013. For [[Greece]], the decline has been 24 percent. For prosperous [[Singapore]] and [[Japan]] the number is minus 1 percent. [[Egypt]]ian real median income declined 10 percent; the [[United Kingdom]] declined 7 percent; [[Iceland]] and [[Italy]], 6 percent; [[Taiwan]], 5 percent; [[Spain]] and the [[Netherlands]], 3 percent; [[Ireland]], 2 percent; [[Austria]], [[Luxembourg]] and the [[Philippines]], all hovered around zero percent growth. March 29 <ref>[http://www.resilience.org/stories/2015-03-29/the-puzzling-flattening-of-carbon-emissions-and-the-problem-of-global-growth resilience.org]</ref>
 
== 2014 ==
 
The Social Enterprise Sector Model for a Job Guarantee in the U.S., By Pavlina R. Tcherneva, January 9 <ref>[http://neweconomicperspectives.org/2014/01/social-enterprise-sector-model-job-guarantee-u-s.html New Economic Perspectives]</ref>


== 2013 ==
== 2013 ==


A successful co-operative requires a good dose of entrepreneurial spirit, theguardian.com, 18 October
100 Locally Needed Skills, December 25 <ref>[http://www.doorsofperception.com/handouts/100-locally-needed-skills-2/ doorsofperception.com]</ref>
 
 
A successful co-operative requires a good dose of entrepreneurial spirit, 18 October <ref>[http://www.theguardian.com/social-enterprise-network/2013/oct/18/coops-need-entreprenerial-spirit theguardian.com]</ref>
 
 
On the Phenomenon of Bullshit Jobs, David Graeber {{W|David Graeber}}, August 17 <ref>[http://strikemag.org/bullshit-jobs/ STRIKE!]</ref>


== 2012 ==
== 2012 ==


Hard at Work in the Jobless Future, By James H. Lee WFS Home › The Futurist › March-April 2012, Vol. 46, No. 2
Hard at Work in the Jobless Future, By James H. Lee, March / April <ref>[http://www.wfs.org/content/futurist/march-april-2012-vol-46-no-2/hard-work-jobless-future World Future Society]</ref>


“Green-Callers” Answer Call!, Katherine Bray on 27 Jan 2012


Inside Apple's Hidden Factories. Finally. motherjones.com Jan. 27, 2012
Inside Apple's Hidden Factories. Finally. January 27 <ref>[http://www.motherjones.com/blue-marble/2012/01/apple-factories-ipad-iphone-labor motherjones.com]</ref>


4 Reasons Why The Future Of Capitalism Is Homegrown, Small Scale, And Independent, fastcodesign.com, (date not found, January 2012?)


Global Employment Trends 2012: World faces a 600 million jobs challenge, warns ILO, 24 January
Global Employment Trends 2012: World faces a 600 million jobs challenge, warns ILO, 24 January <ref>[http://www.ilo.org/global/about-the-ilo/newsroom/news/WCMS_171700/lang--en/index.htm ILO], press release</ref>


== 2011 ==  
== 2011 ==  
4 Reasons Why The Future Of Capitalism Is Homegrown, Small Scale, And Independent, December 5 <ref>[http://www.fastcodesign.com/1665567/4-reasons-why-the-future-of-capitalism-is-homegrown-small-scale-and-independent fastcodesign.com]</ref>


What does a post-growth economy look like?
What does a post-growth economy look like?
By Jeremy Williams:
By Jeremy Williams:
Will ending growth create massive unemployment?
Will ending growth create massive unemployment? November 18
   
   
:Under our current system, there are disastrous job losses whenever the economy goes into recession. It’s an inherently unstable system that is guaranteed to deliver a jobs cull every ten to twelve years, until it eventually runs out of steam altogether. The transition may be rocky, but a steady state should be much more stable in the longer term.
:Under our current system, there are disastrous job losses whenever the economy goes into recession. It’s an inherently unstable system that is guaranteed to deliver a jobs cull every ten to twelve years, until it eventually runs out of steam altogether. The transition may be rocky, but a steady state should be much more stable in the longer term.
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:In the new economy, growth in materials will be limited, but there will still be plenty of change within the system. New businesses will start and jobs will be created. Some sectors will shrink – aviation, oil extraction and so on, but other sectors will boom. Renewable energy is going to be a growing industry for some time to come. Without cheap oil, some aspects of globalization may go into reverse, bringing manufacturing jobs nearer to the point of sale. Food sources will relocalize, re-invigorating local agriculture.
:In the new economy, growth in materials will be limited, but there will still be plenty of change within the system. New businesses will start and jobs will be created. Some sectors will shrink – aviation, oil extraction and so on, but other sectors will boom. Renewable energy is going to be a growing industry for some time to come. Without cheap oil, some aspects of globalization may go into reverse, bringing manufacturing jobs nearer to the point of sale. Food sources will relocalize, re-invigorating local agriculture.
   
   
:On my walk to the station I pass a tailor, a lawnmower workshop and a TV repair man, all of which are unusual, but these kinds of businesses will be returning to a street near you. As we move away from a throwaway culture, repairing, renovating and recycling will be more important. As resources become more expensive, the price of material goods will rise. Those with disposable income may choose to spend it on services rather than products – a spa visit rather than a shopping spree. This is often referred to as the ‘Cinderella economy’, and it has a healthy future. <ref>[http://blog.p2pfoundation.net/a-post-growth-economy-faq/2011/11/18 P2P Foundation], November 18</ref>
:On my walk to the station I pass a tailor, a lawnmower workshop and a TV repair man, all of which are unusual, but these kinds of businesses will be returning to a street near you. As we move away from a throwaway culture, repairing, renovating and recycling will be more important. As resources become more expensive, the price of material goods will rise. Those with disposable income may choose to spend it on services rather than products – a spa visit rather than a shopping spree. This is often referred to as the ‘Cinderella economy’, and it has a healthy future. <ref>[http://blog.p2pfoundation.net/a-post-growth-economy-faq/2011/11/18 P2P Foundation]</ref>




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The International Labour Organization (ILO) has warned of a “scarred” generation of young workers facing a dangerous mix of high unemployment, increased inactivity and precarious work in developed countries, as well as persistently high working poverty in the developing world. October 19 <ref>[http://www.ilo.org/global/about-the-ilo/newsroom/news/WCMS_165465/lang--en/index.htm ILO}, Press release </ref>
The International Labour Organization (ILO) has warned of a “scarred” generation of young workers facing a dangerous mix of high unemployment, increased inactivity and precarious work in developed countries, as well as persistently high working poverty in the developing world. October 19 <ref>[http://www.ilo.org/global/about-the-ilo/newsroom/news/WCMS_165465/lang--en/index.htm ILO], Press release </ref>




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"Environmentalism can't succeed until it confronts the destructive nature of modern work - and supplants it." <ref>The Ecology of Work by Curtis White, Published in the May/June 2007 issue of [https://orionmagazine.org/article/the-ecology-of-work/ Orion magazine]</ref>
"Environmentalism can't succeed until it confronts the destructive nature of modern work - and supplants it." <ref>The Ecology of Work by Curtis White, Published in the May/June 2007 issue of [https://orionmagazine.org/article/the-ecology-of-work/ Orion magazine]</ref>


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'''2019'''
 
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'''May 22''' [[UK Climate news]]: Much shorter working weeks needed to tackle climate crisis <ref>[https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/may/22/working-fewer-hours-could-help-tackle-climate-crisis-study The Guardian]</ref><br clear=all>
 
'''Mar 1''' 'We stopped needing to work in our 30s' <ref>[https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/world-us-canada-47410738/we-stopped-needing-to-work-in-our-30s BBC News]</ref>
 
'''Jan 31''' It seems the idea of a four-day working week is going mainstream. Onwards to 21 hours? <ref>[https://www.thealternative.org.uk/dailyalternative/2019/2/1/four-day-week-mainstream The Alternative UK]</ref>
 
'''2017'''
 
'''Oct 9''' Economists are Obsessed with “Job Creation.” How about Less Work? <ref>[https://evonomics.com/less-work-job-creation-peter-gray/ Evonomics]</ref>
 
The key to jobs in the future is not college but compassion, Jun 22 <ref>[https://aeon.co/essays/the-key-to-jobs-in-the-future-is-not-college-but-compassion @aeonmag]</ref>
 
[[File:Allotments - geograph.org.uk Sheffield.jpg|140px|left]]
[[Sustainable livelihood UK]]: The case for a three-day weekend is clear – let’s start planning now, Caroline Lucas and Jonathan Bartley, Apr 4 <ref>[https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/apr/04/three-day-weekend-injustices-modern-working-life The Guardian]</ref><br clear=left>
 
The Struggle for Meaningful Work, Feb <ref>[http://greattransition.org/publication/meaningful-work greattransition.org]</ref>
 
Hear Alan Watts’s 1960s Prediction That Automation Will Necessitate a Universal Basic Income, Jan 6 <ref>[http://www.openculture.com/2017/01/hear-alan-wattss-1960s-prediction-that-robots-will-necessitate-a-universal-basic-income.html @openculture]</ref>
 
'''2016'''
 
Coworking, Cooperating, and Coming Together: The “New Better Off” Life Looks Pretty Darn Good, Nov 14 <ref>[http://www.shareable.net/blog/coworking-cooperating-and-coming-together-the-%E2%80%9Cnew-better-off%E2%80%9D-life-looks-pretty-darn-good Shareable]</ref>
 
Why we need to plan for a future without jobs, Oct 17 <ref>[http://www.vox.com/conversations/2016/10/17/13245808/andy-stern-work-universal-basic-income-technology-artificial-intelligence-unions vox.com]</ref>




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Revision as of 16:26, 26 August 2019

Fillmore-sidewalk-1.jpg

California news: Nurses Join Forces With Labor Union to Launch Healthcare Platform Cooperative, Aug 21 [1]

2017

Latest figures reveal more than 40 million people are living in slavery, Sep 19 [2]

Allotments - geograph.org.uk Sheffield.jpg

Bread Funds: A pioneering model of self-organising among the self-employed, Apr 25 [3]

Central Park New York City1.jpg

New York City: The Freelance Contract Gives Gig Workers Fair Working Terms, Mar 20 [4]

Launching a Cooperative Isn't Easy — Here's a Resource to Get You Started, Feb 15 [5]

2016

Maids, brick makers, children: the faces of slavery in 2016 driving change. Dec 27 [6]

WorkerTech: fighting for better work through technology, Dec 19 [7]

New Report Says the Number of Coworking Spaces Grew Over 10x in 5 Years, Dec 13 [8]

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An international protocol on forced labour has entered into force, a major milestone in the fight to end the practice, which the United Nations labour agency estimates victimizes 21 million people worldwide, Nov 10 [9]

How Freelancers Are Reinventing Work Through New Collective Enterprises, Oct 11 [10]

What happened after Sweden introduced a six hour work day, Sep 4 [11]

A Shareable Explainer: What is a Platform Co-op? August 16 [12]

The 13 cities with the best work-life balance in the world, May 29 [13]

2015

Stephanie Rearick on Mutual Aid Networks and Local Solidarity, September 10 [14]

ILO: Only a quarter of workers have permanent jobs, May 19 [15]

Growth ended for many people around the globe in 2008. According to the International Labour Organization (ILO), if you earn the median wage in Kenya, your real income has declined 26 percent from 2008 through 2013. For Greece, the decline has been 24 percent. For prosperous Singapore and Japan the number is minus 1 percent. Egyptian real median income declined 10 percent; the United Kingdom declined 7 percent; Iceland and Italy, 6 percent; Taiwan, 5 percent; Spain and the Netherlands, 3 percent; Ireland, 2 percent; Austria, Luxembourg and the Philippines, all hovered around zero percent growth. March 29 [16]

2014

The Social Enterprise Sector Model for a Job Guarantee in the U.S., By Pavlina R. Tcherneva, January 9 [17]

2013

100 Locally Needed Skills, December 25 [18]


A successful co-operative requires a good dose of entrepreneurial spirit, 18 October [19]


On the Phenomenon of Bullshit Jobs, David Graeber W, August 17 [20]

2012

Hard at Work in the Jobless Future, By James H. Lee, March / April [21]


Inside Apple's Hidden Factories. Finally. January 27 [22]


Global Employment Trends 2012: World faces a 600 million jobs challenge, warns ILO, 24 January [23]

2011

4 Reasons Why The Future Of Capitalism Is Homegrown, Small Scale, And Independent, December 5 [24]


What does a post-growth economy look like? By Jeremy Williams: Will ending growth create massive unemployment? November 18

Under our current system, there are disastrous job losses whenever the economy goes into recession. It’s an inherently unstable system that is guaranteed to deliver a jobs cull every ten to twelve years, until it eventually runs out of steam altogether. The transition may be rocky, but a steady state should be much more stable in the longer term.
In the new economy, growth in materials will be limited, but there will still be plenty of change within the system. New businesses will start and jobs will be created. Some sectors will shrink – aviation, oil extraction and so on, but other sectors will boom. Renewable energy is going to be a growing industry for some time to come. Without cheap oil, some aspects of globalization may go into reverse, bringing manufacturing jobs nearer to the point of sale. Food sources will relocalize, re-invigorating local agriculture.
On my walk to the station I pass a tailor, a lawnmower workshop and a TV repair man, all of which are unusual, but these kinds of businesses will be returning to a street near you. As we move away from a throwaway culture, repairing, renovating and recycling will be more important. As resources become more expensive, the price of material goods will rise. Those with disposable income may choose to spend it on services rather than products – a spa visit rather than a shopping spree. This is often referred to as the ‘Cinderella economy’, and it has a healthy future. [25]


ILO says world heading for a new and deeper jobs recession, warns of more social unrest, October31. ILO warns of a generation “scarred” by a worsening global youth employment crisis. [26]


The International Labour Organization (ILO) has warned of a “scarred” generation of young workers facing a dangerous mix of high unemployment, increased inactivity and precarious work in developed countries, as well as persistently high working poverty in the developing world. October 19 [27]


"Throughout the world women are key actors in maintaining the sustaining livelihoods and welfare of their families and communities, and in making a transition to a more equitable and sustainable world. Our economy is linked to and depends on a healthy planet. It also depends on women’s economic contributions, both formal and informal.

Women’s Vision for Rio+20: an Equitable and Sustainable World
Social equity, gender equality and environmental justice must form the heart of sustainable development and of the outcomes of the Rio+20 UN conference in 2012. Twenty years after the first Rio conference, great social and economic inequities still remain. These inequities especially affect women and children, who make up the majority of those living in poverty.
Measures to ensure equity, equality, social and environmental justice need to be prioritized, as these are the cornerstones for achieving sustainable development globally." [28]


Growth, mad men and economists: Why we need an intergenerational and interconnected economy, September 30 [29]


"Worshipping unfalteringly at the altar of paid work exhibits a tunnel view of how value is created in society", August 24 [30]


"...central to any new economic system must be the due place and recognition of care work which people do which is informal, binding and unpaid. This is not volunteering, which implies a certain amount of free will, choosing your time and project and number of hours to put to it. Informal, binding, unpaid care is the sort which goes on in every household and family everywhere, which oils the wheels and is often done largely unnoticed (unless something like illness suddenly prevents it from being done.) The 'binding' bit is the key to differentiating it from voluntary work - most informal carers would never walk away from their babies, children, elderly relatives or other dependants, so they just carry on regardless until the situation changes.The majority (although of course not all) doing informal, binding, unpaid care work are women, especially thinking globally. Any new, sustainable, more humane economic system must take them and their IBU care work into account." [31]

2007

"Environmentalism can't succeed until it confronts the destructive nature of modern work - and supplants it." [32]

Cycle repairing.jpg

CASwiki news articles have a focus on news of community action for sustainability. This article is an offshoot from Sustainable livelihood and is for news and comment in that global or international context.

Comment

2019

Southwark1.jpg

May 22 UK Climate news: Much shorter working weeks needed to tackle climate crisis [33]

Mar 1 'We stopped needing to work in our 30s' [34]

Jan 31 It seems the idea of a four-day working week is going mainstream. Onwards to 21 hours? [35]

2017

Oct 9 Economists are Obsessed with “Job Creation.” How about Less Work? [36]

The key to jobs in the future is not college but compassion, Jun 22 [37]

Allotments - geograph.org.uk Sheffield.jpg

Sustainable livelihood UK: The case for a three-day weekend is clear – let’s start planning now, Caroline Lucas and Jonathan Bartley, Apr 4 [38]

The Struggle for Meaningful Work, Feb [39]

Hear Alan Watts’s 1960s Prediction That Automation Will Necessitate a Universal Basic Income, Jan 6 [40]

2016

Coworking, Cooperating, and Coming Together: The “New Better Off” Life Looks Pretty Darn Good, Nov 14 [41]

Why we need to plan for a future without jobs, Oct 17 [42]


References

  1. @Shareable
  2. The Guardian
  3. RSA
  4. @Shareable
  5. @Shareable
  6. news.trust.org
  7. digitalsocial.eu
  8. @Shareable
  9. un.org
  10. @Shareable
  11. indy100.independent.co.uk
  12. @Shareable
  13. uk.businessinsider.com
  14. Commons Transition
  15. BBC News
  16. resilience.org
  17. New Economic Perspectives
  18. doorsofperception.com
  19. theguardian.com
  20. STRIKE!
  21. World Future Society
  22. motherjones.com
  23. ILO, press release
  24. fastcodesign.com
  25. P2P Foundation
  26. World of Work Report 2011- Press release
  27. ILO, Press release
  28. Quote from introduction from Women’s Major Group Summary, Input to ... (Rio+20) (link not found)
  29. SustainAbility
  30. We have lost the plot by 'worshipping paid work', Gareth Morgan and Susan Guthrie, interest.co.nz
  31. care work which people do which is informal, binding and unpaid, by Cathy Aitchison on March 22, 2011: (link not found)
  32. The Ecology of Work by Curtis White, Published in the May/June 2007 issue of Orion magazine
  33. The Guardian
  34. BBC News
  35. The Alternative UK
  36. Evonomics
  37. @aeonmag
  38. The Guardian
  39. greattransition.org
  40. @openculture
  41. Shareable
  42. vox.com


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