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- "Labors of Love" - a screwball comedy that tracks the fate of one downsized Harry Smith who searches for the perfect job ... only to find the meaning of work. Published by Cottage E-Books.
www.peteosterhaus.com/Bk-LOL.htm
- @Work on the web - The range of alternative work concepts is altogether insufficient. This independent, international co-operative program seeks to identify non-traditional insights, packages, architectures and implementation strategies.
www.ecoplan.org/new-work/nw_index.htm
- An alein's view of life on earth - Advertising, globalization, immigration, and corporations induce us to work too much to the detriment of family life, and combined with genetic engineering this urge to produce more could result in humans becoming almost robotic workers.
reviews.20m.com
- Are You Happy with your Job? - Considering that most of us spend half of our waking hours working at a job, it might really serve to pay attention to ones level of job satisfaction.
www.innerself.com/Reflections/happy_with_job.htm
- Downsized People: Job Subsidies vs Income Supports - Analyzes the Disguised Unemployment Problem. Argues that downsizing and job subsidy proposals are wasteful, and squander an opportunity for root reform. Presents the case for income supports, and the partial separation of incomes from current employment.
www.interport.net/~jonmarin/downsized.htm
- Faith at Work (NZ): Resourcing Christians to connect faith and work - Resources related to career, life planning, theology of work, everyday spirituality, marketplace ethics and mission of laity from a Christian perspective.
www.faithatwork.org.nz
- Flexibility - Online journal about new ways of working.
www.flexibility.co.uk
- LETS: The Economic System of Giving - Discusses the LETS alternative local currency system as a new, more humanising kind of "money" with an impact on the future of work.
www.glasswings.com.au/GlassWings/utopia/lets.html
- NESARA-National Economic Stabilization and Recovery Act - Site promoting legislation providing monetary and fiscal policy reform. Advocates claim that it will double the standard of living for every American within one generation and restore economic and social prosperity across the land.
www.nesara.com
- PBS Work and Labor Series: 'Livelihood' - Companion site to the PBS series on work. Come share your thoughts, frustrations, and solutions to "The Workday that Wouldn't Die." Plus, learn about alternative work schedules and compelling discussions on the workday.
www.pbs.org/livelyhood
- Technology Making It Worse - How the second industrial revolution (miniaturisation and artificial intelligence) is relentlessly stagnating, frightening and impoverishing our community.
www.ourcivilisation.com/signs/chap7.htm
- The end of unemployment: bringing work to life - Summary of a publication by Demos, a British thinktank.
www.demos.co.uk/dq2.htm
- The Turtle Syndrome - The Mobility of Everyday Life - Mobility - both physical and social is enhanced by new transportation and communications technologies and by the new media. The emergence of alternative patterns of work are the result.
samvak.tripod.com/nm065.html
- Third Age Careers and Avocations - Rethinking work for a new life stage? New forms of work such as mentoring can be very rewarding. Includes ideas and links.
votech.about.com/library/weekly/aa122199a.htm
- Wastrel Division - Rethinking the balance between our work and personal life. Links, books, and computing.
www.wastreldivision.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk
- Work-Life Balance in Canadian Workplaces - A Canadian source of information, resources and support on work-life balance: programs, policies and practices, related issues, research, case studies, links and an extensive bibliography.
labour.hrdc-drhc.gc.ca/worklife
- CBC Newsonline Special Feature: The Way We Work - Interactive media site examining changing trends in the workworld and the impact on Canadians. Includes features on freelancing, changing work hours, unemployment and looking for work, work vs life and work culture. Articles, real audio and real video.
www.cbc.ca/news/work
- CLAWS: Creating Livable Alternatives to Wage Slavery - Nonprofit educational, support and political advocacy group, as well as a resource clearinghouse, started by "Generation-X" people who share an interest in working together to generate viable alternatives to wage slavery.
www.whywork.org
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