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Your Caring Sharing Co-op: Women, Work and Sustainability in a Polanyian Paradigm

In: Women Reclaiming Sustainable Livelihoods

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  • Molly Scott Cato

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The title of this book suggests that there is a gender dimension to the question of livelihoods, and perhaps also to the question of sustainability. These are large subjects to cover in one chapter, but I take on the challenge, combining a consideration of how women approach the issue of work with their attitude and particular contribution towards sustainability. I draw theoretical conclusions about women’s role in a sustainable future economy based on evidence about how they already operate within the confines of a globalized capitalist economy. The analysis draws on my decade of work in cooperative studies and proposes an economic model that explicitly questions the allocation of productive labour as an important precursor to the achievement of both sustainability and gender equity.

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  • Molly Scott Cato, 2012. "Your Caring Sharing Co-op: Women, Work and Sustainability in a Polanyian Paradigm," Gender, Development and Social Change, in: Wendy Harcourt (ed.), Women Reclaiming Sustainable Livelihoods, chapter 8, pages 109-124, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:gdechp:978-1-137-02234-9_8
    DOI: 10.1057/9781137022349_8
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