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Showing 1 to 5 of 5 for “"decommodification"”.
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Expanding Architectures of Sharing: Public-Housing Authority-Supported Middle-Income Limited-Equity Cooperatives
… and social support through the combination of decommodification and architectural design. LECs have existed in the United States for over a century. Apart from a few local exceptions, however, the model has never been scaled for a middle-income clientele, due to a lack of financial and …
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Communities of the Dispossessed or Technocratic Housing Nonprofits? Political Logics Animating Community Land Trusts across the American Southwest
… community control and the cultural work of decommodification in their daily housing provision activities—and by anticipating and strategically managing tensions that incentivize conformity. Ultimately, I conclude that experimentation with the CLT model is not leading to straightforward …
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The employment requirements of disabled persons : a study of the development of state supported employment provision.
… driven by rising state-benefit dependency and decommodification. The perspective of the New Right, with its anti-statedependency ideology, ushered in a new regime wherein disabled persons were to be exposed to similar labour-market rigours as the non-disabled. While the two tier …
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An Ecological Economics Inquiry into the Social and Solidarity Economy - Insights from an Action Research
… in SSE initiatives, can be conceptualized as the decommodification of work. The implications of decommodifying work in relation to sustainability is that, it can shape social imaginaries and decouple well-being from material consumption.
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What Was Squatting, and What Comes Next?: The Mystery of Property in New York City, 1984-2014
… private property. As this study has shown, the decommodification of housing provides a means to house the most vulnerable people in society. Squatters' small-scale and mostly successful battle to shepherd their collective property into the realm of legal ownership without succumbing to the logic …