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
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HEALING UNEMPLOYMENT |
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"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 |
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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
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
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
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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