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 <[email protected]> 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 > > -- > CheckFrom: Tom Walker <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: [P2P-F] Fwd: [NetworkedLabour] Fwd: [Debate-List] (Fwd) > Radical leisure, less work, more commoning (Eva Swidler) > To: P2P Foundation mailing list <[email protected]> > Message-ID: > < > canz+bqxmmvc9seh1rf52ghqijirv_6rcouzya_kyjgm+rpd...@mail.gmail.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" > > 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. > > > P2P Foundation: http://p2pfoundation.net - http://blog.p2pfoundation.net > > <http://lists.ourproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/p2p-foundation>Updates: > http://twitter.com/mbauwens; http://www.facebook.com/mbauwens > > #82 on the (En)Rich list: http://enrichlist.org/the-complete-list/ > -- Cheers, Tom Walker (Sandwichman)
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