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| Author: | Cahn, E. S. |
| Title: | Time dollars, work and community: From 'why?' to 'why not?' |
| Journal: | Futures
1999 : JUN, VOL. 31:5, p. 499-509 |
| Index terms: | Society Pay Time Development Unemployment USA |
| Language: | eng |
| Abstract: | Conventional notions of work and economics are failing communities. People need to rethink how they can provide chances for every member of society to secure work and have minimally decent standard of living. An innovative strategy is described generating social capital by using a system of bartering time. Time Dollars schemes transform jobless individuals in communities from a burden into assets. People earn Time Dollars by helping others and then use them to buy essential services, purchase goods, and thus play an invaluable part in building and strengthening community. By freeing communities to ask why not ? |
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