Evolving Work: Employing Self and Community

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The idea of Self and the authenticity of particular identities have been rapidly dissolving in the acids of post-modern globalising capitalism. The hegemony of patterns of work, wage-labor and the operation of labour markets in the American West (and European North) has ridden rough-shod over distinctive ways of enabling communities to flourish in many parts of the Southern and Eastern worlds (Global South). But, this is not inevitable. Indeed, as this book indicates, there are many practical examples across the globe – that connect with some of the most significant theoretical challenges to the operation of dehumanising work – which reveal that a profound reversal is taking place. As such, the core theme of this book is to show that a movement is occurring whereby self-employment can be transformed into communal work that employs the Self in ways that release the authentic vocations of people, individually and collectively.

The approach taken in these chapters traverses the globe, utilising the original ‘integral worlds’ model that will be familiar to students of the Trans4M/Routledge Transformation and Innovation series, developed over more than a decade. Such a standpoint points the way to the release of particular social and economic cultures in each of what we term the four "realities" or "worldviews" of South, East, North and Western worlds. In this book we use the methodology of GENEalogy – identifying the realms associated with each world – to show how the rhythms, that is Grounding, Emergence, Navigation and Effect, of each is leading to greater economic, social and spiritual freedom for individuals, organisations, communities and, indeed, entire societies.

Author(s): Ronnie Lessem, Tony Bradley
Series: Transformation and Innovation
Publisher: Routledge
Year: 2018

Language: English
Pages: 334
City: London

Cover
Title
Copyright
Dedication
Contents
List of figures
List of tables
Part I Introducing evolving work: employing self and community
1 Centring: releasing GENE-IUS: integrity at work
Part II South: employing the community
2 Chinyika: grounding local people: communal identity to communal upskilling
3 Civil economy: gift relationship to emancipatory work
4 Relational sociology: collaborative platforms to humane working
5 Employing community: communal confederalism to women’s communes
Part III East: employing the self
6 The noetics of nature: self realisation to divine trade
7 Economics of the household: home working to partner with others
8 Commonwealth: ethical egoism to sustainable livelihood
9 Sarvodaya: dignified work to multiple capitals
Part IV North: beyond employment: work as recreation
10 The quest for meaning: agape economics to rehoming work
11 Critique of political economy: sustainable employment to regenerative work
12 The otium of the people: automated work to work as recreation
13 Open source: immaterial labour to social networking
Part V West: transforming employment: self, enterprise and new community
14 Post-liberalism: transformed workplaces to blockchain distribution
15 Basic income: valuing identity to people’s fund
16 Social credit: national balance to citizen’s dividend
17 Integral banking: communitalism to communipreneurship
18 Evolving work: employing community, self and enterprise
Index