The ideas behind The Working Centre revolve around the basic building blocks necessary to create community. Some of these ideas, as we have defined them are community tools, access to tools, lack of hierarchy and bureaucracy, building relationships, work as gift, respect for the enivronment, producerism, humility, cooperation and serving others. All of these ideas are developed in the following articles that have appeared in Good Work News.
Ideas and Influences
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Reflection: The deep meaning of solidarity
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Work as Gift: The Path of Cooperation and Sharing
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Using Tools for the Common Good - Revisting the Ideas of Ivan Illich
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Journeys Through Unemployment
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Personal Action Toward the Common Good Teaches the Way Forward
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Environmentalism and Common Work
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Ecological Restoration
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Work as a Gift - Part 2
By Joe Mancini, Good Work News, December 2004 When another year goes by at The Working Centre, we...
The Unpopular Front for Personalist Democracy
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Informal Community Development
By Stephanie Mancini, Good Work News, December 1999 We met Jim Lotz at a conference at the...
Building Relationships: Community Tools and Producing at Home
By Joe Mancini, Simple Living Guide, September 2001 For over 18 years, The Working Centre has...
Alternatives to the Overdeveloped Society
By Joe Mancini, Good Work News, September 2008 Politicians, fearing political backlash, would...
Looking Forward to Sustainable Growth
By Joe Mancini, Good Work News, June 2008 There is a fundamental weakness embodied in the way we...
Article: 20 Years at The Working Centre
By Joe and Stephanie Mancini, Good Work News, June 2002
"The Working Centre is enmeshed in a cycle...
How Sharing In Common Is Like Forest Ecology
By Joe Mancini, Good Work News, September 2000
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Developing a Philosophy for Community Tools
By Joe Mancini, Annual Report, September 2001 Over the last five years The Working Centre has...
