- PBS Work and Labor Series: 'Livelihood' - http://www.pbs.org/livelyhood
Companion site to the PBS series on work. Come share your thoughts, frustrations, and solutions to "The Workday that Wouldn't Die." Plus, learn about alternative work schedules and compelling discussions on the workday.
- An alein's view of life on earth - http://reviews.20m.com
Advertising, globalization, immigration, and corporations induce us to work too much to the detriment of family life, and combined with genetic engineering this urge to produce more could result in humans becoming almost robotic workers.
- @Work on the web - http://www.ecoplan.org/new-work/nw_index.htm
The range of alternative work concepts is altogether insufficient. This independent, international co-operative program seeks to identify non-traditional insights, packages, architectures and implementation strategies.
- CLAWS: Creating Livable Alternatives to Wage Slavery - http://www.whywork.org
Nonprofit educational, support and political advocacy group, as well as a resource clearinghouse, started by "Generation-X" people who share an interest in working together to generate viable alternatives to wage slavery.
- Technology Making It Worse - http://www.ourcivilisation.com/signs/chap7.htm
How the second industrial revolution (miniaturisation and artificial intelligence) is relentlessly stagnating, frightening and impoverishing our community.
- Third Age Careers and Avocations - http://votech.about.com/library/weekly/aa122199a.htm
Rethinking work for a new life stage? New forms of work such as mentoring can be very rewarding. Includes ideas and links.
- Are You Happy with your Job? - http://www.innerself.com/Reflections/happy_with_job.htm
Considering that most of us spend half of our waking hours working at a job, it might really serve to pay attention to one's level of job satisfaction.
- The Turtle Syndrome - The Mobility of Everyday Life - http://samvak.tripod.com/nm065.html
Mobility - both physical and social is enhanced by new transportation and communications technologies and by the new media. The emergence of alternative patterns of work are the result.
- Flexibility - http://www.flexibility.co.uk/
Online journal about new ways of working.
- CBC Newsonline Special Feature: The Way We Work - http://www.cbc.ca/news/work/
Interactive media site examining changing trends in the workworld and the impact on Canadians. Includes features on freelancing, changing work hours, unemployment and looking for work, work vs. life and work culture. With articles, Realaudio and video.
- The Work Foundation - http://www.theworkfoundation.com/index.jsp
Research, practical consultancy and constructive advocacy to make workplaces more effective, more successful and more fulfilling.
- Virtual management - long distance teams - http://www.globalchange.com/vmanagement.htm
How to make teams work better over long distances using new technology to increase efficiency and reduce travel costs. Features, videos and slides by Fuurist Dr Patrick Dixon.
- New Ways to Work - http://www.new-ways.co.uk
A charity offering information and consultancy to individuals, trade unions and companies. News, resources, events, contact details, membership details, links.
- Fisher Vista - http://www.fishervista.com
A marketing and PR firm focusing exclusively on the human resources industry with particular emphasis on work/life, EAP and related services.
- Downsized People: Job Subsidies vs Income Supports - http://users.rcn.com/jonmarin/downsized.htm
Analyzes the Disguised Unemployment Problem. Argues that downsizing and job subsidy proposals are wasteful, and squander an opportunity for root reform. Presents the case for income supports, and the partial separation of incomes from current employment.
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