Creating sustainable livelihoods Self-provisioning and living from the natural environment.

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Creating sustainable livelihoods Self-provisioning and living from the natural environment

Introductory Discussion Why do people work? How many different reasons can you think of? How many people would still work if they had enough money to live on? Might they make different decisions about what work to do? Why is there a problem with the work- life balance?

Anthropology of human societies Side by side with family housekeeping, there have been three principles of production and distribution:  Reciprocity  Redistribution  Market Prior to the market revolution, humanity’s economic relations were subordinate to the social. Now economic relations are now generally superior to social ones.

Citizens’ Income Automatic payments depending on need Tax-free and without means Income tax and employees’ national insurance contributions would be merged into a new income tax The tax-free allowance would balance out the Citizens’ Income for higher earners

Important changes in welfare 1. Citizenship becomes the basis of entitlement 2. The individual would be the tax/benefits unit 3. The Citizen’s Income would not be withdrawn as earnings and other income rises 4. The availability-for-work rule would be abolished 5. Access to a Citizen’s Income would be easy and unconditional 6. Benefit levels would be indexed to earnings or to GDP per capita rather than to prices.

Like the family economy the social economy is based on reciprocity; unlike the family economy kinship is not involved; The market economy and public sector are based on monetary exchange; the social economy is not; The public sector is based on official legislation, whereas the social economy is based on commonality of interests and values; The market economy and public sector are based primarily on material capital whereas the social economy is based primarily on social capital. Social economy

Revolves around the nature of relationships ‘Reciprocity can be described in terms of give-and-take in a relationship between actors who, to a certain extent are equals... Mutuality is often used as a synonym for reciprocity... Reciprocity of social relations creates mutuality of economic relations, but mutuality in economic transactions is no guarantee of reciprocity in social relations.’

Time for a rethink... Market or commons Consumption vs. provisioning Employment vs. livelihood

Gary Snyder on commons ‘The commons is a curious and elegant social institution within which human beings once lived free political lives while weaving through natural systems. The commons is a level of organization of human society that includes the nonhuman. The level above the local commons is the bioregion. Understanding the commons and its role within the larger regional culture is one more step toward integrating ecology with economy’ (Snyder, 1990: 40).

English commons history ‘a territory which is not suitable for crops’ and lies ‘between the extremes of deep wilderness and the private plots of the farmstead’ Neeson (1989) estimates up to 30 per cent of British rural land A form of subsistence where meeting your needs from the local environment was explicit

Meeting your basic needs... Reed was plentiful and valued most as thatch for roofs and also to cover the stacks, ricks and clamps for all kinds of crops and vegetables. Rushes—bulrushes—were equally plentiful, waterproof, and woven into baskets, mats, hats, chair seats and toys... they were also good for bedding, as a netting in the plastering of walls, and wrapping for soft milk cheeses. They made cheap, bright rushlights too (Neeson, 1989: 166).

Commons today... and in the Czech Republic?

From commons to markets Enclosures preceded industrialisation Movement from the land to the cities Loss of subsistence; lower standard of living Population explosion CI as a modern form of common right?

Total acreage733,640652,011 Agricultural acreage696,958509,908 Non-agricultural acreage 36,682142,103 Population534,640549,500 Owners of nothing at all 496,935246,600 Total dwellings101,474233,000 Smallholdings a 29, Small landowners b Large landowners c Acreage of large landowners 454,732211,287 Percentage owned by large landowners 61.9%41.4%

An economy of solidarity? The projects of an economy of solidarity have a tendency to reunite that which has long been separated and to question some presuppositions of the market-state synergy: the separation between the economic and the social, the sharp dividing line between paid work and leisure, the state’s monopoly on solidarity, the market-state dichotomy, and so on.

Characteristics Bottom-up—what we might have called mutualism Anti-capitalist? At least anti- globalisation Importance of the local—level of control Reduction of consumption and respect for the planet—a partially new concern

An economy of emancipation and co-operation Why produce only as a function of an unjust market that depletes and exploits, denying us the chance to manage both the production and the economy for our own service, for the service of all citizens, and of all peoples of the planet, as well as for future generations? Our proposal is a socio-economy of solidarity as a way of life that encompasses the totality of the human being, that announces a new culture and a new form of producing to fulfill the needs of each human being and of the entire humanity.

Further questions... Why should anybody ever work again? How would the CI affect wage rates? How would it affect students, artists, activists? What does this have to do with a green economy?