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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> | |||
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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> | |||
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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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'''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> | |||
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'''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> | |||
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Revision as of 16:26, 26 August 2019
California news: Nurses Join Forces With Labor Union to Launch Healthcare Platform Cooperative, Aug 21 [1] 2017Latest figures reveal more than 40 million people are living in slavery, Sep 19 [2] Bread Funds: A pioneering model of self-organising among the self-employed, Apr 25 [3] 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] 2016Maids, 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] Error in widget YouTube: Unable to load template 'wiki:YouTube'
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] 2015Stephanie 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] 2014The Social Enterprise Sector Model for a Job Guarantee in the U.S., By Pavlina R. Tcherneva, January 9 [17] 2013100 Locally Needed Skills, December 25 [18]
2012Hard at Work in the Jobless Future, By James H. Lee, March / April [21]
20114 Reasons Why The Future Of Capitalism Is Homegrown, Small Scale, And Independent, December 5 [24]
2007"Environmentalism can't succeed until it confronts the destructive nature of modern work - and supplants it." [32] |
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. Comment2019 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] 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]
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