Employment

What Can We Do?

 

Possibilities and Potential

Proceedings of the

Employment Summit - Palmerston North

30 March 1999

 

 

 

A Local Employment Committee Project

Supported by: The Local Employment Co-ordination Unit
Community Employment Group, Palmerston North City Council
Work & Income NZ, NZ Public Service Association, K & M Print Ltd

 

 

Working Together for Employment

 

 

HEALING UNEMPLOYMENT
 

 

 

 

"The in-born creativity in all people is no mean or accidental thing. Neglect it or disregard it and it becomes an inner source of poison. It can destroy you and all your human relationships. On a mass scale it can .... Nay it will inevitably destroy society. On the other hand .... Nothing will stop the flowering of a society that manages to give free rein to the creativity of its people - ALL its people. It is the essence of our times that communities should start NOW to lead their people to self-reliance, work enjoyment and creative opportunities. This is a thing that cannot be ordered or organised from the top. We cannot look to bureaucrats of Governments to unleash this creative power. It is a job to which we can only LOOK TO OURSELVES.

E.F. Schumacher
   Author of "GOOD WORK"

 

 

 


Employment - What Can We Do?
Possibilities and Potential

Proceedings of the Employment Summit
Palmerston North, 30 March 1999

Published by the Palmerston North Employment Summit
Private Bag 11 042, Palmerston North

You are welcome to reproduce this publication in whole or in part
on condition that acknowledgement of the sources is made.

ISBN 0-473-05881-2


Contents [some files are in MS WORD97 format]

Preface

Welcomes

Setting the Scene - Vivian Hutchinson

The End of Work
A Rifkin Reader
A View of the Future - Jeremy Rifkin

Youth Employment Generation - John Fraser

The Role of Local Authorities in Employment Generation at the Local Level - Sean Bevin

What Have I / We Done? - Rongo Wetere

Just Dollars Trust - Peter Taylor

Discussion

Behind the Scenes - The Flying Fishwives

Ruminations on Employment and Economic Development - Ruma Karaitiana

Angel Express - The Palmerston North Women's Loan Fund

Unemployment Beyond 2000: Global Causes, Local Solutions - Philip McDermott

Vision Manawatu - An Employment Initiative already happening - Jim Jefferies

Local Jobs in a Speculative World - Robert Reid

Making Our Community the Way we Want it! - Ian Ritchie

Ideas from the Small Group Discussions

Summing Up - Jill White, Mayor
 

Contributed Papers

Co-operation, Collaboration and Co-ordination - the challenges of working together on unemployment and poverty - Vivian Hutchinson

Local Employment Coordination - What can a Regional Commissioner do? - Jan Francis and Vivian Hutchinson

Natural Capitalism - The "Greening" of business - Paul Hawken

Towards the Knowledge Society - Charles Leadbeater

Ensuring Basic Economic Security - Key to a Sustainable Society - Sally Lerner

How to Support Community Economic Development - Sean Markey

Unemployment to Self-Employment - a practitioners view - Sandra Anderson

Employment in Agriculture - Central Region Federated Farmers

Employment Summit Participants

 


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