ECC2013/Working and Caring Stream/Documentation

The P2P Foundation wiki collates documentation on the topic of labor here.

Introductory Material

• Peter Waterman: Linking Labour and the Commons Internationally‎: Re-Interpreting Equality in Terms of the Principle of the Commons

• Recommended books on the contemporary condition of 'work', by Dougald Hine at http://dougald.co.uk/workbooks.htm

• Key articles by Hilary Wainwright:

• • From Labour as Commodity to Labour as a Common
  • Co-Creative Labor, Productive Democracy and the Partner State; a very important text to reset government policies for the p2p age. The 3 parts cover: 1 A value revolution in labor; 2 Re-constituting industrial strategies based on co-creative labor; 3 The Co-Creative Economy needs a Partner State

• Orsan Senalp's work on Social Network Unionism

• Tom Walker's work on Social Accounting [1] ; i.e. on considering Employment as a Common Pool Resource in order to institute a Labor Commons

• Michel Bauwens: Theses on Digital Labor in an Emerging P2P Economy

• Free and Open Software Applications that are safe and useful for unionists, labour and social justice activists: [2]

• An interview with Silvia Federici on the "reproductive crisis", http://kasamaproject.org/threads/entry/permanent-reproductive-crisis-an-interview-with-silvia-federic

Recommended Reading for the Working and Caring Stream from ICC2010

Source: The Wealth of the Commons. A world beyond market and state. Ed. by David Bollier and Silke Helfrich. Commons Strategies Group. Levellers Press, 2012 [3]

• El Buen Vivir and the Commons, A Conversation between Gustavo Soto Santiesteban and Silke Helfrich [4]