Cross-posted from Shareable. Nithin Coca: For Socorro Aguirre Cruz, a home care worker in Staten Island, New York, with nearly 50 years of cleaning experience, many of the challenges faced by gig workers today have been part of her life for decades. Work has been precarious for her long before the emergence of massive, venture… Continue reading
The following is an important overview of recent studies relating the energy and materials crisis to the economy, and the deep structural crisis that this represents. This post by Nafeez Ahmed was originally published on Insurge Intelligence, Medium.com Inside the new economic science of capitalism’s slow-burn energy collapse And why the struggle for a new economic… Continue reading
Hubs of commerce and culture. Seats of geopolitical power. Throughout history they’ve been pulling country folk to seek their fortunes with these massive magical concrete magnets. In pre-industrial times, cities were still the cores of political power and the economy, but less so. More people lived and worked in the surrounding countryside. That trend has… Continue reading
Cross-posted from Shareable. Neal Gorenflo: When I began writing about the sharing economy in 2009, the eclectic array of struggling, communitarian-minded tech start-ups in San Francisco, California, were just one small part of a vast number of sharing innovations that made up what we at Shareable saw as an era-defining transformation in how people create… Continue reading
By Irmi Salzer and Julianna Fehlinger // Translated by Santiago Killing-Stringer. Originally posted on Degrowth.de About the authors and their positions We see ourselves as part of the movement for food sovereignty and are writing from the perspective of the Österreichische Berg- und Kleinbäuer_innenvereinigung ÖBV – Via Campesina Austria1(Irmi Salzer) and the agro-political group AgrarAttac… Continue reading