Surf these sites: @Work on the web -- The range of alternative work concepts is altogether insufficient. This independent, international co-operative program seeks to identify non-traditional insights, packages, architectures and implementation strategies. CLAWS: Creating Livable Alternatives to Wage Slavery -- Nonprofit educational, support and political advocacy group, as well as a resource clearinghouse, started by "Generation-X" people who share an interest in working together to generate viable alternatives to wage slavery. Downsized People: Job Subsidies vs Income Supports -- Disguised Unemployment problem. Argues that downsizing and job subsidy proposals are not only wasteful and painful, but also squander the opportunity for root reform. Presents a case for Brannon-style income supports, and the partial separation of incomes from current employment. How can we move towards sustainable work? -- Are we not so conditioned in our traditional and conventional attitudes to work that there seem to be few radical or comprehensive visions of how work might be? Sustainable work is an attempt to set out the beginnings of a vision. LETS: The Economic System of Giving -- Interesting discussion of LETS as a new, more humanising kind of "money", and its relationship with the problem that much existing work is unsustainable. Technology And The Work Ethic -- essay Technology Making It Worse -- How the second industrial revolution ( miniaturisation and artificial intelligence) is relentlessly stagnating, frightening and impoverishing our community. The end of unemployment: bringing work to life -- Summary of a publication by Demos [a British think-tank]. Third Age Careers and Avocations -- Rethinking work for a new life stage? New forms of work such as mentoring can be very rewarding. Includes ideas and links.
Help build the largest human-edited
directory on the web.