THE
FUTURE OF WORK
September
27 to October 25 1995
The
eighth season of ecoversity
forums
hosted by Imagine
The Future in association
with the Australian Conservation
Foundation and the Future of
Work Foundation. Facilitated
and presented by Charles Brass
for FOWF.
1.
September 27 1995
WHAT
IS WORK?
with Wendy Weeks,
Social Work Department, Melbourne
University, who at very short notice
replaced scheduled speaker Bettina
Cass, professor of Social
Policy and Sociology at the University
of Sydney and chair of the National
Council for the International Year
of the Family (who was called upon
to do more traditional women's work
- looking after her grandchild while
her daughter was having another
baby); and Sue Jackson,
coordinator of the Brotherhood of
St Lawrence's Future of Work project.
2.
October 4 1995
MONEY
AND THE FUTURE OF WORK
with Edmund Burgi,
a retired small business person,
long time member of Economic Reform
Australia and author of Money
creation: the great confidence trick;
and Mark Jackson,
a graduate student from La Trobe
University's Bendigo campus researching
alterative money systems including
LETS.
3.
October 11 1995
PUBLIC
POLICY AND THE FUTURE OF WORK
with Dee Margetts,
one of two Green senators in Federal
Parliament and long time advocate
of alternative approaches to current
ways of thinking about economics
and work; and Bob Charles,
Member for La Trobe, secretary to
the shadow Cabinet and chair of
the House of Representative Committee
on Education, Employment and Training.
Scheduled speaker. MP John
Langmore, chair of the
House Committee on Environment,
Recreation and the Arts and the
Caucus Committee on Social Justice,
and co-author of Work for all:
full employment in the 1990s,
was unable to attend.
4.
October 18 1995
WORK
WHICH IS NOT EXCHANGED FOR MONEY
with Margaret Bell,
executive director of the Volunteer
Centre of NSW and world president
of the International Association
for Volunteer Effort; and Duncan
Ironmonger, associate professor
and reader in economics in the Department
of Economics at Melbourne University,
and director of the Households Research
Unit.
5.
October 25 1995
CITIZENSHIP,
COMMUNITY AND THE FUTURE OF WORK
with Peter Cox,
community worker and manager of
the Bendigo based Future Employment
Opportunities Inc, which incorporates
the Eaglehawk Training Station and
the Eaglehawk Enterprise Centre;
and John Ward of
Deakin University who co-developed
the first Australian Bachelor of
Arts degree in community development.
The scheduled speaker, Susan
Kenny, from the School
of Social Inquiry at Deakin University's
Toorak campus, and author of Developing
communities for the future: community
development in Australia, was
unable to attend.
