Rethinking work for a just and sustainable future

Gómez-Baggethun, Erik

doi:10.1016/j.ecolecon.2022.107506

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“…The transformation of industrial production is inevitable due to climate change, and care work is unlikely to decline and may even increase, as we observed during COVID-19. Thus, any vision of integrating the ecological and social aspects of an economy needs to reassess how paid and unpaid care work can be reorganized and how structures of care provision can be built for equitable forms of sustainability (Gomez-Baggethun, 2022). By locating ecological and equitable provisions of care at the center of sustainable transition, degrowth scholarship offers a valuable space to critically engage with discussions on care to create more dignified spaces of work and life-making possibilities (Chertkovskaya & Paulsson, 2021).…”

Section: Degrowth and Capacity To Promote Equitymentioning

confidence: 99%

Degrowth: a path to transformative solutions for socio-ecological sustainability

Islar,

Koch,

Raphael

et al. 2024

Glob. Sustain.

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Section: Degrowth and Capacity To Promote Equitymentioning

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Degrowth: a path to transformative solutions for socio-ecological sustainability

Islar,

Koch,

Raphael

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Glob. Sustain.

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“…To reduce alienation, we must rethink the concepts of work (e.g., Gomez-Baggethun, 2022 ), monthly income, and views of the work–life balance. The goal is redesigning and bringing work and personal life into a healthier relationship (e.g., Guest, 2002 ; Crompton and Lyonette, 2006 ; Bowers, 2007 ; Bhende et al, 2020 ).…”

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Transformative community projects in East Germany's rural spaces: exploring more sustainable forms of learning, working, and living

Broecher

Painter

2023

Front. Sociol.

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Increasingly people experience alienation in educational institutions, in work life, and fragmentation in their personal life. This study explores more self-determined, healthy, and sustainable forms of working, learning, and living through a dynamic process that began in 2020 with the purchase of an old homestead in Eastern Germany. Through the remodeling of the buildings and grounds, the first social and cultural references emerged. Along with practical uses, the farm project sees itself as a future workshop or think tank. The resulting consideration includes ideas of compulsory schooling woven into a self-designed format and the introduction of an unconditional basic income. These components could lead to thousands of such projects in rural and urban areas. Drawing from communitarianism, the belief is that an active civil society must take on social, economic, and educational responsibilities and offer children and young people improved conditions in which to grow up. Theory development on the individual components exists, such as entrepreneurship, transformation, community-building, basic income, or self-directed learning but not on the interaction of these variables in the overall context. We tentatively call this integrated design a transformative community project.

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“…This article contributes to the emerging literature that rethinks the role of work and social protection systems in the context of social-ecological transformation towards post-growth and postproductivist economies (Bottazzi, 2019;Corlet Walker et al, 2021;Dermine and Dumont, 2022;Dukelow and Murphy, 2022;Gerold et al, 2022;Gomez-Baggethun, 2022;Hirvilammi and Joutsenvirta, 2020;Koch et al, 2023;Laruffa, 2022;Laruffa et al, 2021). We link the existing scholarly discussion to qualitative empirical data from eleven deliberative citizen forums on sustainable needs satisfactionor needs satisfaction within planetary limitswhich we conducted in Sweden during 2020.…”

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The role of work and social protection systems in social-ecological transformations: Insights from deliberative citizen forums in Sweden

Lee,

Koch

2023

European Journal of Social Security

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To avoid catastrophic consequences of impending ecological crises our socio-economic systems need to be transformed in rapid and radical manners. Focusing on working life and Sweden as an example for countries of the Global North with a social-democratic welfare tradition, we ask how social protection systems may be reorganised according to the concept of ‘sustainable welfare’, the satisfaction of basic human needs across space and over time. We combine a literature review with an analysis of qualitative data from deliberative citizen forums following Max-Neef's Human Scale methodology. After taking stock of the existing literature that highlights the unsustainable character of current work regimes, we present our application of the methodology used in the citizen forums as well as the data. Our participants generally highlighted the importance of broadening the concept of work beyond ‘employment’ when reflecting on the role of work in addressing and satisfying multiple human needs within planetary limits. The introduction of a universal basic income, a participation income, an expansion of universal basic services, working time reduction and a sabbatical year conditioned on civic participation/education were among the eco-social reform ideas that forum participants highlighted to liberate work from its current unsustainable and capitalist contexts and turn it from a negative into a positive need satisfier.

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Rethinking work for a just and sustainable future

Cited by 9 publications

References 60 publications

Degrowth: a path to transformative solutions for socio-ecological sustainability

Degrowth: a path to transformative solutions for socio-ecological sustainability

Transformative community projects in East Germany's rural spaces: exploring more sustainable forms of learning, working, and living

The role of work and social protection systems in social-ecological transformations: Insights from deliberative citizen forums in Sweden

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