Consumerism, unsustainable growth, waste and inequalities continue to ail societies across the globe, but creative collectives have been tackling these issues at a grassroots level.
Based on an autoethnographic study about a free food store in Aotearoa New Zealand, this book presents a first-hand account of how a community is organized around surplus food to deal with food poverty, while also helping the reader to see through the complexity that brings the free food store to life.
Examining how alternative economies and relations emerge from these community solutions, the author shows it is possible to think, act and organize differently within and beyond capitalist dynamics.
stabilising their lives. Supporting People provides the means of enabling them to settle into a new home, and learn basic life skills that other people take for granted like how to pay rent, shop for food, organise going to regular training and so on. This stable housing enables them to take the necessary steps forward towards independence and stability. (DETR, 2001, p 11) Evaluating policy Responsibilities to form homelessness and Supporting People strategies were not in place at the time of the research and so did not impact on the young people included in the sample
Philippines and Mexico through a state-regulated temporary migrant worker programme. Employers have thus been able to secure a relatively permanent workforce, with their preferred worker qualities, at domestically low wages (Polanco, 2016; 2017). Under the terms of their visas, migrant workers have no or little mobility, thus creating a stable workforce in a sector with notoriously high turnover. Fast-food organizing and the challenge of non-citizenship behind the counter The fast-food sector is widely recognized as among the most poorly paid, low-status, fast
Recent government legislation requires local authorities to provide secure accommodation for unintentionally homeless 16- and 17-year-olds. Many local authority housing departments are therefore facing the challenge of how to adequately support this group of young people for the first time.
Making it work outlines the debates and developments leading up to the recent policy changes; reports on the first research into the factors affecting the success of young people’s tenancies; examines the varied experiences of young people housed by local authorities; provides a framework for objectively evaluating the success of such tenancies and highlights good practice for supporting young people in independent housing. Making it work is essential reading for professionals in local authority housing departments and nominated RSLs, as well as for students on professional housing courses and academics interested in housing policies, responses to homelessness and issues for young people.
Austerity was presented as the antidote to sluggish economies, but it has had far-reaching effects on jobs and employment conditions.
With an international team of editors and authors from Europe, North America and Australia, this illuminating collection goes beyond a sole focus on public sector work and uniquely covers the impact of austerity on work across the private, public and voluntary spheres.
Drawing on a range of perspectives, the book engages with the major debates surrounding austerity and neoliberalism, providing grounded analysis of the everyday experience of work and employment.
