The document discusses the importance of human relationships in social reform and well-being. It argues that social workers should advocate for social and economic conditions that maximize human relationships and flourishing. This includes promoting a shorter working week to allow more time for caring, community involvement, and developing relationships. Reducing working hours could help address social problems and lower environmental impact by reducing consumption and increasing prosperity defined by relationships rather than wealth.
"Radical Animal: Constructing the Creative Self" - Pat Kanewww.patkane.global
Slides to my lecture to the Kings' College Literature And Arts Festival, "PLAY", delivered on Wed, October 12th, 2016. For more on this, please visit www.theplayethic.com
This is a career development workshop, which shifts participants' awareness toward a clarity of vision and career opportunities that "do well" for yourself while "doing good" for others.
"Radical Animal: Constructing the Creative Self" - Pat Kanewww.patkane.global
Slides to my lecture to the Kings' College Literature And Arts Festival, "PLAY", delivered on Wed, October 12th, 2016. For more on this, please visit www.theplayethic.com
This is a career development workshop, which shifts participants' awareness toward a clarity of vision and career opportunities that "do well" for yourself while "doing good" for others.
Flourishing Beyond Sustainability: The Promise of a Regenerative TourismAnna Pollock
Delivered to the Baltic Sea Tourism Forum 4 months before Covid19 arrived in Europe. Outlines why and how tourism needs to change its operating model from being extractive to regenerative.
Overview of the assumptions underpinning Conscious Travel and brief introduction to the Principles (Stepping Stones) delivered to the International Conference on Contemporary Perspectives in Tourism & Hospitality Research, University of Brighton, May 12th, 2015
A presentation I made at the Council of Europe the 15/03/2012 about the Youth of Europe that is making a difference. Some answers to:
Who are they?
What they do?
How they do it?
Ecotourism and Global Challenges -Presentation to European Ecotourism Confere...Anna Pollock
Business as Usual not possible; challenges the fixation on volume growth; need for an evolutionary leap in consciousness; shift from growth (more) to flourishing (better); eco hosts are at the frontline helping guests come into a right relationship with Nature.
A guest lecture presented to students at Simon Fraser University's School of Communications regarding emerging policy issues in the social innovation space, government downloading, trends and practices in social enterprise and typologies of social purpose ventures.
How to Leverage Social Media to Promote Your BlogPost Planner
"Content marketing costs 62% less than traditional marketing and generates about 3 times as many leads."
You’d be crazy not to take advantage of that. And yet, most people don't know where to begin.
If you want to learn how to:
--Drive traffic to your website
--Convert leads into sales, and
--Build awareness, engagement, and reach through content marketing and the power of social media...
Then you'll LOVE this slidedeck! Even better... you can watch the webinar on-demand here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wkjJTL1105c&t=1s
Flourishing Beyond Sustainability: The Promise of a Regenerative TourismAnna Pollock
Delivered to the Baltic Sea Tourism Forum 4 months before Covid19 arrived in Europe. Outlines why and how tourism needs to change its operating model from being extractive to regenerative.
Overview of the assumptions underpinning Conscious Travel and brief introduction to the Principles (Stepping Stones) delivered to the International Conference on Contemporary Perspectives in Tourism & Hospitality Research, University of Brighton, May 12th, 2015
A presentation I made at the Council of Europe the 15/03/2012 about the Youth of Europe that is making a difference. Some answers to:
Who are they?
What they do?
How they do it?
Ecotourism and Global Challenges -Presentation to European Ecotourism Confere...Anna Pollock
Business as Usual not possible; challenges the fixation on volume growth; need for an evolutionary leap in consciousness; shift from growth (more) to flourishing (better); eco hosts are at the frontline helping guests come into a right relationship with Nature.
A guest lecture presented to students at Simon Fraser University's School of Communications regarding emerging policy issues in the social innovation space, government downloading, trends and practices in social enterprise and typologies of social purpose ventures.
How to Leverage Social Media to Promote Your BlogPost Planner
"Content marketing costs 62% less than traditional marketing and generates about 3 times as many leads."
You’d be crazy not to take advantage of that. And yet, most people don't know where to begin.
If you want to learn how to:
--Drive traffic to your website
--Convert leads into sales, and
--Build awareness, engagement, and reach through content marketing and the power of social media...
Then you'll LOVE this slidedeck! Even better... you can watch the webinar on-demand here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wkjJTL1105c&t=1s
How can CPAs use Social Media to help them grow as professionals and leaders? Presentation by Janice Maiman (AICPA) and Tom Hood, CPA (MACPA) at the inaugral AICPA Leadership Academy in Chicago on July 10, 2009
Operation india is my country project or mission aadhaar by www.indiaismycoun...DantuBhaskar
Operation India Is My Country project or mission AADHAAR by www.indiaismycountry.in. 100 % “ BAAHUBALI ” for Digital India
Dear responsible citizen of INDIA and stake holder for this mission - Operation -- India Is My Country or “ ओय ”,
In continuation of earlier project / mission ( kindly see right side ) under “ ओय ” series ANYWHERE ANYTIME -- “ A ” or “ अ ” for achieving 100% voting which was released in December - 2014, herewith presenting AADHAAR -- “ AA ” or “ आ ” .
A) 100% de-duplication of AADHAAR numbers - Slide no – 31 .
B) Zero % legal heir issues - Slide no - 25 , 33, 34 & 74
C) Unique Identity for every citizen of India
D) Criteria for deciding the BPL / Economically backward class categories
Highlights of OI – “ ओय ” - AA – “ आ ” :
1) The lifeline of India & every Indian citizen.
2) 100 % “ BAAHUBALI ” and catalyst for Digital India
3) 100% NATIONAL INTEGRATION in terms of Socio - Techno - Geographic - Economic
4) 100% de-duplication in every sector and how it can acheived
5) 100% perfect re-engineering tool with a 360 degrees view - Slide no - 120
6) Smart policing and investigation by Geo tagging the AADHAAR number and biometrics alongwith registration of date and time - Slide no - 107
7) Replacing of all existing identities and registration numbers, whether issued by govt or pvt agencies
8) Will force to do the reconciliation of various legislation acts
Join us December 10, 2014 at 12pm to learn how to write effective, targeted content that you can re-use across your entire web presence.
During this session, we'll cover:
- Six Secrets To Begin Writing
- Creating Meaningful & Effective Content
- Handy Tips For Blogging
- Proper Email Etiquette
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Big Data is the new buzz word doing rounds these days. What is Big Data? How can be it used for advertising? Which companies use Big Data? How do they use it? What are benefits of Big Data? Know it all!
Presentation by Keith Hall, CBO Director, to the American Academy of Actuaries.
In fiscal year 2016, the federal budget deficit increased, in relation to the size of the economy, for the first time since 2009, according to the Congressional Budget Office’s estimates. If current laws generally remained unchanged, the deficit would grow over the next 10 years, and by 2026 it would be considerably larger than its average over the past 50 years, CBO projects. Debt held by the public would also grow significantly from its already high level.
To analyze the state of the budget in the long term, CBO has extrapolated its 10-year baseline projections an additional two decades. If current laws governing taxes and spending remain in place, the outlook for the budget would steadily worsen over the long term, with revenues falling well short of spending. In those projections, federal debt held by the public rises to 141 percent of GDP in 2046.
To put the federal budget on a sustainable path for the long term, lawmakers would have to make major changes to tax policies, spending policies, or both – by reducing spending for large benefit programs below the projected amounts, letting revenues rise more than they would under current law, or adopting some combination of those approaches. The size of such changes would depend on the amount of federal debt that lawmakers considered appropriate.
Ipsos MORI Scotland: Public Opinion Monitor June 2016Ipsos UK
As we enter the final week of campaigning ahead of the referendum on the UK’s membership of the European Union (EU), our new poll for STV News suggests that the majority of Scots will back the campaign to retain membership.
Among those who are likely to vote next week, 58% would vote for the UK to stay in the EU while 33% support Brexit and 8% are undecided. Once we have removed undecided voters, 64% back Remain and 36% Brexit.
1.- Importancia de Google Scholar.
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For your Paper, you will have to answer two sets of questions (y.docxshericehewat
For your Paper, you will have to answer two sets of questions (you must answer both):
(1)Among all the topics we talked about this quarter (i.e. student loan debt, poverty, homelessness, addiction, etc.) which one was most interesting to you? Why?
(2)What social problems topic would you like to see added to a future iteration of this class? In what ways is the topic you have identified both a personal trouble and public issue?
Please produce a written response that answers both sets of questions. Your written responses must be between 500-600 words.
pre-requisite:Most Interesting in the topic of inequality than others(like i.e. student loan debt, poverty, homelessness, addiction). This is my inequality paper before, talking around inequality, and have same basic understanding as my previous paper, but don’t copy it PLZ. Thanks!
For Inequality
“ In "The 1 percent's Problem" and "The Pitchforks are Coming" various arguments are presented which situate socioeconomic inequality as a social problem. Focus on 1-2 of the arguments from the readings that you personally find most compelling (for example, "the fairness problem"). Briefly outline these arguments and evaluate them. Are these valid reasons for why inequality matters? Why or why not? ”
“The 1 Percent’s Problem” contains extensive arguments shedding light socioeconomic inequality as a social problem. The consumption problem springs up as a result of a widening gap between rich and poor. It is profound that too much power possessed by one interest group helps them to formulate the policies that will help them in the short run, rather than helping the entire society in the long run. The American tax policy, public investment and regulatory policy are all result of a persistent gap between the two classes. The effects of channeling the wealth and income in one direction only are easy to discern on household expenditure which is the backbone of the American economy. When too much money is accumulated by the upper strata of society the spending of the average American abate. The flow of money from the bottom to the top reduced the consumption, as the high-income group spends money on consumption with respect to their income, lower than the lower income group.
The consumption lowers when inequality rises because lower-income individuals do not have enough money to spend. In addition, lower income individuals are more than high-income individuals. In terms of economics, the relationship is simple. As the high-income group accumulates more and more money the aggregate demand goes down. The total demand in the economy goes down despite its high capability of supplying. As a result, the unemployment increases which damp the demand even more. The purchasing power decreases with the less money supply among the lower income individuals which compel them to spend less. Thus, we could say that increasing income inequality decreased the overall consumption of the economy.
Another economic jargon is ren ...
Every body know the mantra:
Think global and act local, but nobody do nothing and there is a huge number of poor people increasing all over the world.
Why?
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MADS 6645: Marketing Social Change
Professor: Rajesh Kumar
First Reflection: Corporate Social Responsibility
Aakanksha Karingula
(1874461)
Fairleigh Dickinson University
Topic: Corporate Social Responsibility
Objective.
For this topic on reflective writing I choose to write about the quote, “In response to pressures to be more socially responsible, corporations are becoming more active in global communities through direct involvement in social responsibilities (Hess & Warren, 2008).” This is defined as the concept, in which organizations integrate socially as well as environmental concerns in their business operations and stakeholder interactions (Kotler & Lee, 2005). What caught my attention to write about this is the desire to communicate and share ideas about the importance of corporate social responsibility for organizations towards society. Many organizations have grown due to the support they got from society as it plays a major role in the sustainability of these organizations. For instance, providing the resources that are needed to run organizations.
This, therefore, got me thinking that it would be also a good idea for the same organizations to consider doing something out of the goodwill for the community to give back at goodwill. According to this quote, many organizations have taken the initiative to work towards community wellness and this was as a result of pressure. However, some of these firms have been pushed to practice corporate social responsibility by the pressure from stakeholders. Organizations need to understand the need for them to involve in good deeds towards the society since it is the society that contributes largely to the wellness of them through promotions like buying and marketing their products to others (Wang, Tong, Takeuchi, & George, 2016).
Reflective.
This quote made me reflect on organizations like Deloitte, IBM, Apple, and LinkedIn just to mention but a few which were among the top 20 corporate socially responsible firms in 2017. I came to understand that many companies had adopted this initiative in the quest to give back to society in ways like helping the less fortunate, providing educational as well as health services. IBM, for instance, plays a major role in promoting as well as offering support on education, economic development, and global health among other many initiatives. I also realized that corporate social responsibility played a major role in boosting the reputation of these firms and that these grew even more from this initiative. Organizations taking part in corporate social responsibility have the advantage of selling themselves more to society. Society tends to appreciate and love such organizations more and this helped me understand how it affected their growth and development.
I also learned about Apple, one of the best technology companies in the world and how it takes its global responsibility seriously. I came t ...
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MADS 6645: Marketing Social Change
Professor: Rajesh Kumar
First Reflection: Corporate Social Responsibility
Aakanksha Karingula
(1874461)
Fairleigh Dickinson University
Topic: Corporate Social Responsibility
Objective.
For this topic on reflective writing I choose to write about the quote, “In response to pressures to be more socially responsible, corporations are becoming more active in global communities through direct involvement in social responsibilities (Hess & Warren, 2008).” This is defined as the concept, in which organizations integrate socially as well as environmental concerns in their business operations and stakeholder interactions (Kotler & Lee, 2005). What caught my attention to write about this is the desire to communicate and share ideas about the importance of corporate social responsibility for organizations towards society. Many organizations have grown due to the support they got from society as it plays a major role in the sustainability of these organizations. For instance, providing the resources that are needed to run organizations.
This, therefore, got me thinking that it would be also a good idea for the same organizations to consider doing something out of the goodwill for the community to give back at goodwill. According to this quote, many organizations have taken the initiative to work towards community wellness and this was as a result of pressure. However, some of these firms have been pushed to practice corporate social responsibility by the pressure from stakeholders. Organizations need to understand the need for them to involve in good deeds towards the society since it is the society that contributes largely to the wellness of them through promotions like buying and marketing their products to others (Wang, Tong, Takeuchi, & George, 2016).
Reflective.
This quote made me reflect on organizations like Deloitte, IBM, Apple, and LinkedIn just to mention but a few which were among the top 20 corporate socially responsible firms in 2017. I came to understand that many companies had adopted this initiative in the quest to give back to society in ways like helping the less fortunate, providing educational as well as health services. IBM, for instance, plays a major role in promoting as well as offering support on education, economic development, and global health among other many initiatives. I also realized that corporate social responsibility played a major role in boosting the reputation of these firms and that these grew even more from this initiative. Organizations taking part in corporate social responsibility have the advantage of selling themselves more to society. Society tends to appreciate and love such organizations more and this helped me understand how it affected their growth and development.
I also learned about Apple, one of the best technology companies in the world and how it takes its global responsibility seriously. I came t ...
Commissioned by the W.K. Kellogg Foundation and written by Matt Leighninger of the Deliberative Democracy Consortium, this paper reviews that conversation and extends an invitation to both deliberative democracy and dialogue practitioners and to community organizers to continue it. In doing so, it invites civic engagement practitioners from diverse schools of thought to raise and tackle tough, important questions; to deepen their mutual understanding of other practices and approaches, and of the values underlying and unifying their work; and to propose ideas for working together more effectively, and with greater impact.
Commissioned by the W.K. Kellogg Foundation and written by Matt Leighninger of the Deliberative Democracy Consortium, this paper reviews that conversation and extends an invitation to both deliberative democracy and dialogue practitioners and to community organizers to continue it. In doing so, it invites civic engagement practitioners from diverse schools of thought to raise and tackle tough, important questions; to deepen their mutual understanding of other practices and approaches, and of the values underlying and unifying their work; and to propose ideas for working together more effectively, and with greater impact.
Humans are a social organism, we have evolved to be social. Working together for a collective action is hardwired into us. We want to help, share, and give to each other and receive in kind.
Many things that we want , and need, cannot be created simply by our own efforts, so require some form of collaboration or reciprocity. The benefits we derive from that sociability we could call social capital. Social capital arises from the human capacity to consider others to think and act generously and cooperatively.
The concept of social capital relates to important questions of human behaviour and motivation such as why people give or help others even when there is no foreseeable benefit for themselves.
The central preposition of social capital is that relationships matter and that social networks are a valuable asset.
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Trusted To Develop Us? How Community Development Trusts Can Respond To – and ...www.patkane.global
Slides to the Zoom webinar presentation by Pat Kane to Development Trust Northern Ireland (DTNI), on 12 May, 2020. Biog on the presentation at The Alternative UK here - https://www.thealternative.org.uk/dailyalternative/2020/5/10/dtni-trusted-to-develop-us. For more, contact Pat at www.patkane.global
How do you make a Citizens Action Network (CAN)? - The Alternative UKwww.patkane.global
These slides are part of The Alternative UK's 2020 presentation on Citizens Action Networks - their definition, their tools, and the methods and stages of their assembly. For more, visit www.thealternative.org.uk
A presentation given to the Impact Hub Birmingham's Radical Childcare event, Mon 16th July, 2018. For more please contact either www.patkane.global or www.thealternative.org.uk
“AFTER POPULISM: IS EMOTIONAL LITERACY THE KEY TO A NEW POLITICS?” by The Alt...www.patkane.global
The co-initiators of The Alternative UK (Indra Adnan and Pat Kane) were invited to give a presentation at Innocracy, Berlin on November 28. Our theme was ‘After populism: is emotional literacy the key to a new politics?”
http://www.thealternative.org.uk
http://www.progressives-zentrum.org/innocracy-programme/
Phil Teer: Universal Basic Income - an Insurrection of the Imaginationwww.patkane.global
Slides from a presentation given by PHIL TEER, of the creative agency Brothers and Sisters, at the first "friendly" of The Alternative UK (www.thealternative.org.uk), March 1st, 2017.
Some Notes On "Inclusion" - Pat Kane for Creative Scotlandwww.patkane.global
My presentation to the Regular Funded Organisation - Creative Scotland - Equality, Diversity and Inclusion conference, Feb 1, Mitchell Library, Glasgow. To contact me, go to www.patkane.today
The Play Ethic: forging a "good society" through the power and potential of playwww.patkane.global
Presentation by Pat Kane to the Global Gathering on Early Childhood, Aviva Stadium, Dublin, 17 October 2013. For more contact Pat at http://www.theplayethic.com
Pat Kane's presentation to The Future of Media in Scotland conference, 9/4/13 (http://scotsmanconferences.com/viewconference.aspx?id=29). More from http://www.thoughtland.info
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‘वोटर्स विल मस्ट प्रीवेल’ (मतदाताओं को जीतना होगा) अभियान द्वारा जारी हेल्पलाइन नंबर, 4 जून को सुबह 7 बजे से दोपहर 12 बजे तक मतगणना प्रक्रिया में कहीं भी किसी भी तरह के उल्लंघन की रिपोर्ट करने के लिए खुला रहेगा।
हम आग्रह करते हैं कि जो भी सत्ता में आए, वह संविधान का पालन करे, उसकी रक्षा करे और उसे बनाए रखे।" प्रस्ताव में कुल तीन प्रमुख हस्तक्षेप और उनके तंत्र भी प्रस्तुत किए गए। पहला हस्तक्षेप स्वतंत्र मीडिया को प्रोत्साहित करके, वास्तविकता पर आधारित काउंटर नैरेटिव का निर्माण करके और सत्तारूढ़ सरकार द्वारा नियोजित मनोवैज्ञानिक हेरफेर की रणनीति का मुकाबला करके लोगों द्वारा निर्धारित कथा को बनाए रखना और उस पर कार्यकरना था।
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In a May 9, 2024 paper, Juri Opitz from the University of Zurich, along with Shira Wein and Nathan Schneider form Georgetown University, discussed the importance of linguistic expertise in natural language processing (NLP) in an era dominated by large language models (LLMs).
The authors explained that while machine translation (MT) previously relied heavily on linguists, the landscape has shifted. “Linguistics is no longer front and center in the way we build NLP systems,” they said. With the emergence of LLMs, which can generate fluent text without the need for specialized modules to handle grammar or semantic coherence, the need for linguistic expertise in NLP is being questioned.
role of women and girls in various terror groupssadiakorobi2
Women have three distinct types of involvement: direct involvement in terrorist acts; enabling of others to commit such acts; and facilitating the disengagement of others from violent or extremist groups.
Time To Care, Time To Play: Wellbeing, Social Work and the Shorter Working Week
1. TIME TO CARE, TIME TO PLAY wellbeing, social work & the shorter working week PAT KANE www.theplayethic.com ADSW 2011
2. Three blind quotes on the importance of human relationships in social reform: 1: “The very simple idea of people's relationships with others is what is at stake here. The centrality of one-to-one conversations, of relationship building , of establishing trust between what were seen as incompatible communities and interests transformed my understanding of what a politics of the common good could be”
3. Three blind quotes on the importance of human relationships in social reform: 2: “For at the end of the day, prosperity goes beyond material pleasures. It transcends material concerns. It resides in the quality of our lives and in the health and happiness of our families. It is present in the strength of our relationships and our trust in the community. It is evidenced by our satisfaction at work and our sense of shared meaning and purpose. It hangs on our potential to participate fully in the life of society.”
4. Three blind quotes on the importance of human relationships in social reform: 3: “If we stick the course and change this country then we will have a national life expanded with meaning and mutual responsibility. We will feel it in the strength of our relationships – the civility and courtesy we show each other, . . . and we will feel it in our culture – a new can-do and should-do attitude where Britons once again feel in control of their lives”
5. Three blind quotes on the importance of human relationships in social reform: 1: Maurice Glasman, architect of “Blue Labour”, 2011, The Observer 2: Tim Jackson, ex-head of Sustainability Commission, 2009 3: David Cameron, 2009, Hugo Young Memorial Lecture, “The Big Society”
6. SW's domain of expertise - the quality of human relationships – is the stamping ground of many contending social and political forces now International Federation of Social Work definition: The social work profession promotes social change, problem solving in human relationships and the empowerment and liberation of people to enhance well-being. Yet what are the optimum social & economic conditions for the maximum level of human flourishing & relationships?
7. Oscar Wilde: “the problem with socialism is that it takes too many evenings...” Problem with Big Society is the same... Who (beyond the already committed) has the time & energy to help repair a “broken society” through social enterprises?
8. Other aspects of Big Society easily derided - it's a rebranding of previously existing work in voluntary sector - it's a cover for the casualisation & deep privatisation of public services, under an unnecessarily extreme pace of national deficit reduction - it's a semi-aristocratic notion of the value of good works, noblesse oblige extended to the motivated middle classes
9. JESSE NORMAN'S “BIG SOCIETY” “ What, then, is Motivation 3.0? It is based on three ideas: autonomy, mastery and purpose . “Autonomy” refers to the degree of control that people have over their work; “mastery” to their desire to get better at something they care about: and “purpose” to their desire for meaning – for what they are doing to matter not merely to them but to other, or to God. People succeed – both in the world's terms and their own – when they are motivated by intrinsic rewards, not external ones . Their success is most influenced not by talent but by sheer hard work and persistence, in seeking a mastery that can never fully be realised. And the work or sport or pursuit in question is driven by the belief that, in a world of hype, it matters. Ultimately then, conviction and substance are what make the difference... Together these ideas provide huge empirical support for what we have called the “active self”... “ [The Big Society] would mean a systematic focus on empowering front-line staff and allowing them to get on with the job—giving them the ability to gain the autonomy, mastery and purpose that we have seen are the sources of creative motivation .” SPEED-READING THIS TORY MP'S GUIDE TO THE BIG SOCIETY... I CAME UPON THIS INTERESTING TRINITY OF CONCEPTS...
10. In “Red Tory”, Philip Blond argued that the big banks should be broken up & turned into community banking institutions, bringing fluidity to social & community enterprises. Funnily enough, that hasn't happened... We need to look to other critiques from other perspectives - the current mainstream political paradigms are pretty exhausted
11. Environmentalists & sustainable economists have been arguing for “ Prosperity without wealth” (Tim Jackson), “Plenitude” (Juliet Schor) If you swallow the “green pill”, y ou become very aware of how the material throughput of western consumer society will contribute disastrously to global warming. We have to change - even as a lifestyle cue to Asia's coming 6 billion in 2050
12. So the Greens are looking to redefine what we Westerners regard as wealth - away from work-to-earn-to-hyper/heedless consumption. RELATIONSHIPS our new wealth - if we clear time, space & resources to develop those, we not only answer our well-being issues, but also reduce our energy consumption & material throughput http://www.ted.com/talks/tim_jackson_s_economic_reality_check.html “ We spend money we don't have, on things we don't need, to make impressions that don't last, on people we don't care about”
13. The consensus among environmental economists - how do we create space for prosperity and plenitude, while reducing material consumption? - is the reduction of working hours. NEF is 21 hours as a horizon - “1092 hours” across a year. My suggestion in Sunday Herald was 30 hours more immediately, as a response to cuts in public sector employment in local councils
14. But there is also a social services dimension to the shorter working week - which is in terms of coproduction/co-creation of services. How many poor social indicators could be addressed by more time (& not necessarily more money) available to parents, carers, enthusiasts for environment, locality, arts & multiculture?
15. How can social work raise questions at a higher level? One memorable quote from Reimagining Social Work: “Sometimes I just think we're ambulancemen for capitalism" Social work should be in the forefront of arguing for a sustainable society where relationship is paramount - and militant about arguing for those social and economic arrangements which would most support that http://www.reimaginingsocialwork.org
16. “ The greater challenge for social workers is how they can shift themselves and service users beyond present-day concerns with material consumption and instrumental outcomes. In a culture of choice and self-expression, well-being demands a balance in the form of emotional closeness, respect and collective solidarity. These are not inherently conservative values, rather the issue should be how to give them a radical new connection with the concepts of justice, inclusion and diversity.” Bill Jordan, Social Work and Wellbeing (2009), Intro http://www.russellhouse.co.uk/pdfs/socialworkandwellbeing.pdf
17. Right now? Social work needs to have an active, not passive or procedurally-bounded discussion with all the new "relationship/society" peddlers First comment...
18. TIME TO CARE, TIME TO PLAY wellbeing, social work & the shorter working week pat kane / www.theplayethic.com ADSW 2011