1st Edition

Evolving Work Employing Self and Community

By Ronnie Lessem, Tony Bradley Copyright 2019
334 Pages 5 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

334 Pages 5 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

334 Pages 5 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

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... Read more

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

Biography

Ronnie Lessem is a co-founder of Trans4m. He has been a management educator and consultant in Africa, Asia, Europe and America and is the author of over 30 books on the development of self, business and society.

Tony Bradley is Tutor in Social Economy and a member of the research team within the SEARCH Centre of Liverpool Hope Business School. He has published a number of books and journal articles on green sociology, political economy and pastoral theology.