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Green Work, Wealth & Community Development
• Work: how can we be of service?
• Wealth: what’s the purpose of work?
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Related Questions
• What is “green”—what is “sustainability”?
• What is money, finance, democracy?
• “Markets”? “Regulation”?
• etc.
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Context
• Structural crisis of the economic system.
• Long-held assumptions challenged.
• Issue of the POTENTIALS of economic development
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Key Theme: Redefining WealthPhantom/Casino vs. Real Economy
Quantitative: Money & Material
Accumulation
Qualitative: Well-being
Regeneration
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Work & the ‘Real Economy’
What is work & its trajectory of
evolution?
What is Green Work?
What’s a “Job”?
How are jobs and work remunerated?
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The Purpose of Social & Economic Change
• Reform?– mainstream view of sustainability as limiting
excess– redistribution of (quantitative) wealth
• Restructuring / Revisioning?– reshaping the purpose of the economy– redefining as well as redistributing wealth
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What is Green Work?
• Cleanup? • Efficiency?
• Blue-collar? White-collar?
• Should all work be ‘green’?
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Issues Raised
• the nature of work & green work
• the purpose & structure of economic life
• the role of money
• the role of human & environmental need
• the role of “labour”
• the role of “business”
• cutting-edge alternative perspectives
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What’s the ‘Real Economy’?
• simply material production?
• Complicated by the rise of cultural production/consumption
• Raises questions about the purpose of production
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My Perspective
• Green as Postindustrial– authentic knowledge-based development– key role of culture in the economy
• Strategic importance of positive alternatives in making change
• Holistic definition of a Green Economy
• Importance of “work” not simply “jobs”
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The Economy in Loops
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A Green Economy-1
1. From products to services: culture-based production as People Production; focus on end-use & human need.
2. Ecosystem-based economy: decentralization, distribution, participation
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A Green Economy-2
• Substitutes human creativity for resources & energy: shift in labour/resources balance.– Human development should be the primary
strategy for sustainability
• Eco-production: high “eyes to acres” ratio. Efficiency depends on participation.
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Industrialism: The Divided Economy
Invisible Visible Use-value Exchange-value “Consumption” “Production” People Things Unpaid Paid Women Men Informal Formal Private Public
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Invisible Economy (1) Total Productive System of an Industrial
Society(layer cake with icing)
GNP-Monetized
½ of CakeTop two layers
Non-Monetized
Productive ½ of Cake
Lower two layers
GNP “Private” SectorRests on
GNP “Public” SectorRests on
Social Cooperative
Love EconomyRests on
Nature’s Layer
“Private” Sector
“Public”Sector
“underground economy
“Love Economy”
Mother Nature
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Issues
• Automation of blue-collar work.• Degradation & outsourcing of blue-
collar work: globalization.• Undervaluing of Resources: labour-
vs. resource-productivity• ‘Automation’ of white-collar work• De-marketization of production & the
Commons.• A crisis of “jobs” or a Crisis of
Remuneration?• Is Fordist-era manufacturing the
solution?
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Remuneration & Qualitative Wealth
• Sever work and income?
• Wages: tied to certain kinds of production & markets. Public goods not so well served by markets.
• Economic insecurity: closely related to environmental destruction.