Global Downturn
Workers brace for new Recession

What the world needs
.. is a shorter work week

Australian Labor Party
How long beyond their use-by date?

ACTU accuses Libs':
 "Idle on shorter work hours"

Ford Australia
Workers get nine-day fortnight and extra leave

Korea:
Workers continue fight to save jobs

Russia:
Workers strike against Putin Laws - build solidarity with Mexican Workers

U.S.
Religious group calls for ‘free time / free people’ campaign

Wollongong SWWAC
gets max coverage in Illawarra for SWW

"Free Trade vs Fair Trade":
And the fight for a worldwide campaign to shorten working hours

Australia 2000:
IWorking life - harder, poorer

Ideas for a new economy:
Potential users tool kitting points the way

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SWWAC VIEWS                                                                                   UPDATED December 2000




Ideas for a new economy:  potential users tool kit

In the ‘info-’ age people work & live in new ways: in ‘technopoles/eco-villages’.
Info --> knowledge --> wisdom?

Work may involve fast mass transit but not 5 days a week.  Both work & travel time should drop and free time grow. Work shifts from central office/work place to neighbour-hood-community centred spaces: autonomous, but interlink--ed & globally reaching.  Can this dissolve boundaries bet-ween 1st & 3^rd/4^th world, suburbs & metro-centres, city & country, or central & remote regions?

Potentials include:- .

Telework – 3 phases: fragmentation of corporate workspace -‘telecommuting’; dispersion & self contract /management -‘teleworking’; diffusion into ‘on-line communities’ – ‘networkers’ (Qvortrup ‘telework: visions,definitions, realities, barriers’ OECD 1992).

 Telecentres – communal workplaces for employees, contractors & ‘start-ups’ in neighbourhoods/suburbs/ towns/villages –‘ from corporation to community’.

Industry ecosystems, zero emission principles and resource productivity concepts (Cote, Pauli, Lovins)

Cluster development in rural, town, urban context using land use & energy design principles with integration of work/life space and activity.

 High performance principles, community builders & cooperative organizational forms to develop capability & standards.

Use of acts & agencies to direct change – eg sustainable energy development, community land devp’t, environ-mental planning; employment & resource development