IMO the boundary between the household and the larger informal/social economy is very permeable. The nuclear family household is relatively recent and artificial, and to a considerable extent encouraged by 20th century capitalism's promotion of social atomization which reduced the household to the smallest possible size which would still socialize the costs of reproducing labor-power and the culture of obedience without providing a potential base for cost-, income- and risk-pooling which might increase the bargaining power of labor. It's quite likely that as total labor hours decline and precarity increases, we'll see a lot more not only of multi-generational houses but of multi-family cohousing, micro-villages and the like that internalize an increasing share of direct production for use.
On Thu, Oct 12, 2017 at 1:38 AM, Michel Bauwens <[email protected]> wrote: > the following was prompted by Jose Ramos, who was thinking about his new > book on commons policy, > > SO, WE NEED TO WORK ON SIGNIFICANT GAPS IN P2P THEORY, and in particular: > > > after hearing a recent monbiot video where he mentioned 4 economic spheres, > (market-state-commons-households), rather than the 3 we are using at the p2p > foundation (market-state-commons) ... > > > I have started thinking that in our (at least mine) own work, I have really > collapsed household and commons, because I on the one hand, I see the family > as a commons and caring as commoning, but on the other hand, I have not seen > any solution yet emerge, as how commons-based peer production can actually > help the household economy, > > > so basically, I am asking for help and ideas on how we could think this > through, > > > here is a potential framework: I would suggest a potential scheme > > take the 4 economic sectors: commons, state, market and households > > each of these has internal governance aspects and specific characteristics > > then, they need to relate to each other, given us commons-market, commons to > state, commons-households, etc.. > > then, all of this needs a meta-framework > > > so far the work at the p2p foundation has been at the intersection of 1) a > general framework for commons/state/market, and I believe we have done good > work on this 2) work on commons-state (in value in the commons economy and > other work) 3) state-commons: our work in ecaudor (focusing on social > knowledge commons) and our work in ghent, focusing on institutional design > for public-commons cooperation; I think we have done good work and advanced > significantly in these 3 directions > > > -- > Check out the Commons Transition Plan here at: http://commonstransition.org > > P2P Foundation: http://p2pfoundation.net - http://blog.p2pfoundation.net > > Updates: http://twitter.com/mbauwens; http://www.facebook.com/mbauwens > > #82 on the (En)Rich list: http://enrichlist.org/the-complete-list/ > > _______________________________________________ > P2P Foundation - Mailing list > > Blog - http://www.blog.p2pfoundation.net > Wiki - http://www.p2pfoundation.net > > Show some love and help us maintain and update our knowledge commons by > making a donation. Thank you for your support. > https://blog.p2pfoundation.net/donation > > https://lists.ourproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/p2p-foundation > -- Kevin Carson Senior Fellow, Center for a Stateless Society http://c4ss.org "You have no authority that we are bound to respect" -- John Perry Barlow "We are legion. We never forgive. We never forget. Expect us" -- Anonymous Homebrew Industrial Revolution: A Low-Overhead Manifesto http://homebrewindustrialrevolution.wordpress.com Desktop Regulatory State http://desktopregulatorystate.wordpress.com _______________________________________________ P2P Foundation - Mailing list Blog - http://www.blog.p2pfoundation.net Wiki - http://www.p2pfoundation.net Show some love and help us maintain and update our knowledge commons by making a donation. Thank you for your support. https://blog.p2pfoundation.net/donation https://lists.ourproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/p2p-foundation
