[P2P-F] labour power as a common pool resource

Sat Jun 18 18:53:43 CEST 2016

thanks Tom,

Michel

On Sat, Jun 18, 2016 at 11:36 PM, Tom Walker <lumpoflabor at gmail.com> wrote:

> Yes, Michel. Briefly, a few years ago I wrote a piece called "Time on the
> Ledger" that sketches the rudiments of a social accounting framework that
> could be used by a labour commons unionism. It's posted on Scribd:
> https://www.scribd.com/doc/44657733/Time-on-the-Ledger-Social-Accounting-for-the-Good-Society
>
> On Fri, Jun 17, 2016 at 4:41 PM, Michel Bauwens <michel at p2pfoundation.net>
> wrote:
>
>> Could you be very specific about this Tom,
>>
>> I work with post-corporate entrepreneurial coalitions and labour mutuals
>> , and it would be of interest to me if you could explain the practicalities
>> of how this would work ?
>>
>> have you looked into contributive accounting systems like Sensorica's
>>
>> how does that relate to your ideas,
>>
>> for example:
>> http://wiki.p2pfoundation.net/Interfacing_Open_Peer_Production_Organizations_with_Classical_Institutions
>>
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>> CheckFrom: Tom Walker <lumpoflabor at gmail.com>
>> Subject: Re: [P2P-F] Fwd: [NetworkedLabour] Fwd: [Debate-List] (Fwd)
>>         Radical leisure, less work, more commoning (Eva Swidler)
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>> I hope this article sparks the conversation that needs to take place. It
>> certainly raises the issues that need to be addressed.
>>
>> In my view, the next step in thinking about labour, leisure and the
>> commons
>> is to conceptualize labour power as a common pool resource. Unions have
>> traditionally bargained for collective terms for individualized work
>> contracts, which reinforces the selling time for money paradigm. "A fair
>> day's work for a fair day's wage." Treating labour power as a common pool
>> resource, however, would require the development of an entirely different,
>> social accounting framework in which collective interests of security and
>> community -- commonalty, to use the Luddites' term -- are prioritized.
>> I've
>> written a few things on labour power as a common pool resource and Paul
>> Burkett discussed the concept in Marx and Nature.
>>
>>
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> --
> Cheers,
>
> Tom Walker (Sandwichman)
>

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