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Life after COVID-19 : the other side of crisis / Martin Parker.

By: Parker, Martin.
Publisher: Bristol : Bristol University Press, ©2020Description: 202 p.Content type: text Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceSubject(s): Social problems | Social history | Economic history | Labor | Climatic changes | COVID-19 (Disease) -- Social aspects | COVID-19 (Disease) -- Economic aspectsGenre/Form: Print books.
Contents:
Front Cover -- Epigraph -- Life After Covid-19 The Other Side of Crisis -- Copyright information -- Table of contents -- List of contributors -- One Beginning, Again -- Bouncing back -- #NoGoingBack -- Politics and change -- This book -- Two Telling a New Story -- The magic ingredients -- The narrative before COVID-19: more, more, more! -- Counter-stories -- The response to COVID-19: "This ain't Kansas, Toto!" -- A bigger story -- Build Back Better (not busyness12 as usual) -- A post-COVID-19 narrative -- Three A World of Care -- Why is now so different? -- Four moments -- Vision.
Principles -- Towards a world of care -- Four From Conflict to Collaboration -- What is conflict? -- How can we transform our approach to conflict? -- Changing our understanding of conflict -- The possibility of transformation -- Five The Contested Home -- Visibility/vulnerability -- Liminal spaces -- Control/monitoring -- The home of the future -- Six Working Lives -- Winners and losers -- No going back -- Sharing risks and benefits -- Seven Democracy and Work -- The union co-op -- Creating decent work -- Convert an existing company into a union co-op -- Rescue a failing company.
Convert an existing co-op into a union co-op -- Converting a social enterprise or charity into a union co-op -- Create a brand-new worker co-op that is fully unionized -- Creating a union co-op for the self-employed -- Employment after COVID-19 -- What have we learned from COVID-19? -- Eight New Foodscapes -- The corporate food regime -- The politics of possibility -- Lessons from the kitchen -- Towards a deliberative ethic -- More-than-food -- Nine Cash -- Cash matters -- COVID-19: the death of cash? -- What's the damage? -- Out with the old, in with the new? -- Ten Artificial Intelligence.
Abstraction and optimization -- People's councils -- Knowing, caring -- Eleven Resilience and the City -- The city -- Circular economy -- Social economy -- Collective action -- Approaches, scales and frameworks -- The future of participation -- Twelve The Nation and the State -- Moving people -- Moving things -- The state of the nation -- Connecting scales -- Thirteen Unleadership -- Leadership -- Unleadership -- A future for unleadership? -- Fourteen Carbon and Climate -- Carbon emissions -- Mission orientation -- Current mechanisms -- Future possibilities -- Climate clubs -- Fifteen Growth.
The energy economy -- After growth -- Redistribution -- Intrinsic goods -- Sixteen Innovation and Responsibility -- Crisis, legitimacy and change -- Entrepreneurship and innovation -- Responsible innovation -- Seventeen Together into a Future -- What crisis makes possible -- Finding purpose within uncertainty -- Notes -- Back Cover.
Summary: Almost every aspect of society will change after the pandemic, but if we learn lessons then life can be better. Featuring expert authors from across academia and civil society, this book offers ideas that might put us on alternative paths for positive social change.
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Front Cover -- Epigraph -- Life After Covid-19 The Other Side of Crisis -- Copyright information -- Table of contents -- List of contributors -- One Beginning, Again -- Bouncing back -- #NoGoingBack -- Politics and change -- This book -- Two Telling a New Story -- The magic ingredients -- The narrative before COVID-19: more, more, more! -- Counter-stories -- The response to COVID-19: "This ain't Kansas, Toto!" -- A bigger story -- Build Back Better (not busyness12 as usual) -- A post-COVID-19 narrative -- Three A World of Care -- Why is now so different? -- Four moments -- Vision.

Principles -- Towards a world of care -- Four From Conflict to Collaboration -- What is conflict? -- How can we transform our approach to conflict? -- Changing our understanding of conflict -- The possibility of transformation -- Five The Contested Home -- Visibility/vulnerability -- Liminal spaces -- Control/monitoring -- The home of the future -- Six Working Lives -- Winners and losers -- No going back -- Sharing risks and benefits -- Seven Democracy and Work -- The union co-op -- Creating decent work -- Convert an existing company into a union co-op -- Rescue a failing company.

Convert an existing co-op into a union co-op -- Converting a social enterprise or charity into a union co-op -- Create a brand-new worker co-op that is fully unionized -- Creating a union co-op for the self-employed -- Employment after COVID-19 -- What have we learned from COVID-19? -- Eight New Foodscapes -- The corporate food regime -- The politics of possibility -- Lessons from the kitchen -- Towards a deliberative ethic -- More-than-food -- Nine Cash -- Cash matters -- COVID-19: the death of cash? -- What's the damage? -- Out with the old, in with the new? -- Ten Artificial Intelligence.

Abstraction and optimization -- People's councils -- Knowing, caring -- Eleven Resilience and the City -- The city -- Circular economy -- Social economy -- Collective action -- Approaches, scales and frameworks -- The future of participation -- Twelve The Nation and the State -- Moving people -- Moving things -- The state of the nation -- Connecting scales -- Thirteen Unleadership -- Leadership -- Unleadership -- A future for unleadership? -- Fourteen Carbon and Climate -- Carbon emissions -- Mission orientation -- Current mechanisms -- Future possibilities -- Climate clubs -- Fifteen Growth.

The energy economy -- After growth -- Redistribution -- Intrinsic goods -- Sixteen Innovation and Responsibility -- Crisis, legitimacy and change -- Entrepreneurship and innovation -- Responsible innovation -- Seventeen Together into a Future -- What crisis makes possible -- Finding purpose within uncertainty -- Notes -- Back Cover.

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Almost every aspect of society will change after the pandemic, but if we learn lessons then life can be better. Featuring expert authors from across academia and civil society, this book offers ideas that might put us on alternative paths for positive social change.

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