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Transition to common work : building community at the Working Centre /
"The Working Centre in the downtown core of Kitchener, Ontario, is a widely recognized and successful model for community development. Begun from scratch in 1982, it is now a vast network of practical supports for the unemployed, the underemployed, the temporarily employed, and the homeless, po...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Autores principales: | , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Waterloo, Ontario :
Wilfrid Laurier University Press,
[2015]
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| Colección: | ACUP E-Book.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Part one: the Working Centre takes root
- Introduction: beyond us and them
- Building community: the Working Centre's roots
- Liberation from overdevelopment
- Part two: community engagement
- The Virtues
- St. John's Kitchen: redistribution through cooperation
- Searching for work at the Help Centre
- The nuts and bolts of an alternative organization
- Part three: toward a philosophy of work
- Ethical imagination: the Working Centre's approach to salaries
- Community tools
- Small is beautiful: re-embedding reciprocal relationships in daily work
- Conclusion: transition to common work
- Map of the Working Centre buildings and projects
- Map of the Working Centre locations in downtown Kitchener
- A thirty-year chronology of the Working Centre
- People of the Working Centre.