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Transition to Common Work - Building Community at The Working Centre (Paperback)
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Transition to Common Work - Building Community at The Working Centre (Paperback)
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The Working Centre in the downtown core of Kitchener, Ontario, is a
widely recognized and successful model for community development.
Begun from scratch in 1982, it is now a vast network of practical
supports for the unemployed, the underemployed, the temporarily
employed, and the homeless, populations that collectively
constitute up to 30 percent of the labour market both locally and
across North America. Transition to Common Work is the essential
text about The Working Centreaits beginnings thirty years ago, the
lessons learned, and the myriad ways in which its strategies and
innovations can be adapted by those who share its goals. The
Working Centre focuses on creating access-to-tools projects rather
than administrative layers of bureaucracy. This book highlights the
core philosophy behind the centre's decentralized but integrated
structure, which has contributed to the creation of affordable
services. Underlying this approach are common-sense innovations
such as thinking about virtues rather than values, developing
community tools with a social enterprise approach, and implementing
a radically equal salary policy. For social workers, activists,
bureaucrats, and engaged citizens in third-sector organizations
(NGOs, charities, not-for-profits, co-operatives), this practical
and inspiring book provides a method for moving beyond the doldrums
of "poverty relief" into the exciting world of community building.
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