Good Work News

A forum of opinion on work, unemployment and the environment

Our Quarterly newspaper seeks out ideas which redefine work and consumerism by focusing on examples of community tools, reciprocity and home production. We report on projects, ideas and initiatives that describe how people are finding ways to produce for themselves outside of the formal market. We also report on our job search, bartering, community gardens, bicycle initiatives and craft workshop projects which reflect these ideas.

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Phone: 519-743-1151 ext. 111
E-mail: pamelas@theworkingcentre.org

Where and When We Are

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The Working Centre

58 Queen St. S, Kitchener

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Wed, Mar 13 2013

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The Individual and the Group
Thu, Jul 19 2012

Among the groups scheduled to visit the Working Centre this fall is the Arts first-year seminar at the University of Waterloo on "Cliques, Crowds, and Individuals." Last year the seminar spent an evening with Jean Steckle at the Heritage Homestead on Bleams Road. This year the trek off-campus is to 43 Queen.

Building Relationships Where People Are Real
Thu, Jul 19 2012

by Ken Westhues

Frederick Douglass had a feeling something was wrong. The Maryland economy of the early nineteenth century was humming along smoothly enough. There were plantations like the one where he spent his first eight years. There was Baltimore, the city where he grew into a teenager. Like any of us, Douglass encountered his society as a given, an established, pre-existing order into which he was expected to fit.