<div dir="ltr">Could you be very specific about this Tom, <div><br></div><div>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 ?</div><div><br></div><div>have you looked into contributive accounting systems like Sensorica's</div><div><br></div><div>how does that relate to your ideas,</div><div><br></div><div>for example: <a href="http://wiki.p2pfoundation.net/Interfacing_Open_Peer_Production_Organizations_with_Classical_Institutions">http://wiki.p2pfoundation.net/Interfacing_Open_Peer_Production_Organizations_with_Classical_Institutions</a><br clear="all"><div><br></div>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div>Check<span style="font-size:12.8px">From: Tom Walker <</span><a href="mailto:lumpoflabor@gmail.com" style="font-size:12.8px">lumpoflabor@gmail.com</a><span style="font-size:12.8px">></span></div><span style="font-size:12.8px">Subject: Re: [P2P-F] Fwd: [NetworkedLabour] Fwd: [Debate-List] (Fwd)</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px"> Radical leisure, less work, more commoning (Eva Swidler)</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">To: P2P Foundation mailing list <</span><a href="mailto:p2p-foundation@lists.ourproject.org" style="font-size:12.8px">p2p-foundation@lists.ourproject.org</a><span style="font-size:12.8px">></span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">Message-ID:</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px"> <</span><a href="mailto:CANz%2BBQxMmvc9SEh1Rf52GHqiJirV_6RCOUzYA_KYJGM%2BRpD8rQ@mail.gmail.com" style="font-size:12.8px">CANz+BQxMmvc9SEh1Rf52GHqiJirV_6RCOUzYA_KYJGM+RpD8rQ@mail.gmail.com</a><span style="font-size:12.8px">></span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8"</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">I hope this article sparks the conversation that needs to take place. It</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">certainly raises the issues that need to be addressed.</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">In my view, the next step in thinking about labour, leisure and the commons</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">is to conceptualize labour power as a common pool resource. Unions have</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">traditionally bargained for collective terms for individualized work</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">contracts, which reinforces the selling time for money paradigm. "A fair</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">day's work for a fair day's wage." Treating labour power as a common pool</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">resource, however, would require the development of an entirely different,</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">social accounting framework in which collective interests of security and</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">community -- commonalty, to use the Luddites' term -- are prioritized. I've</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">written a few things on labour power as a common pool resource and Paul</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><div><span style="font-size:12.8px">Burkett discussed the concept in Marx and Nature.</span> </div><div><br></div><div><br></div>P2P Foundation: <a href="http://p2pfoundation.net" target="_blank">http://p2pfoundation.net</a> - <a href="http://blog.p2pfoundation.net" target="_blank">http://blog.p2pfoundation.net</a> <br><br><a href="http://lists.ourproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/p2p-foundation" target="_blank"></a>Updates: <a href="http://twitter.com/mbauwens" target="_blank">http://twitter.com/mbauwens</a>; <a href="http://www.facebook.com/mbauwens" target="_blank">http://www.facebook.com/mbauwens</a><br><br>#82 on the (En)Rich list: <a href="http://enrichlist.org/the-complete-list/" target="_blank">http://enrichlist.org/the-complete-list/</a> <br></div></div></div>
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