Keith Hudson suggests that all work has exchange value, if the time
frame is long enough - and that one of the challenges for our society is
to create community structures which are stable enough for the exchange
value to be recognised and exchanged.
Keith, I agree with you, though I probably would not have expressed
things this way.
Using your language, then, I would describe my quest as searching for
community structures which reflect this requirement, and exchange
systems which allow easy exchange of the value created by all forms of
work.
We seem to have some idea about how to do this on a limited scale
(families, kibbutzes, communes are examples) but these (with apologies
to those who revere families) are somewhat marginal nowadays.
How we might structure a whole society to achieve these ends seems to me
to be worth pursuing (in a practical sense, not by rehashing the
theories of the many many others who have explored these issues in the
past).
--
Charles Brass
Chairman
Future of Work Foundation
PO Box 122 Fairfield 3078 Australia
Ph: 61 3 9459 0244
Fax: 613 9459 0344
The mission of the Future of Work Foundation is
"to engage all Australians in creating a better future for work"
