In this episode Dave (@withsobersenses) and Rob talk about how the provision of welfare and social services are changing. We chat about the concept of social reproduction, the welfare state and its evolution and critically investigate new developments. As the mining boom ends, the world teeters on a the edge of another economic meltdown and states struggle with increasing amounts of debt we ask what’s going on with welfare and how can we struggle on this terrain in ways that point to a better life and a better society.
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Material referred to includes:
Multi-million dollar ‘green bonds’ could fund Qld’s climate change strategy
Global Social Impact Investment Steering Group
Back ground on Debt and Social Reproduction can be found at Australia you’re standing in it part 2: Debt & Social Reproduction
An earlier show on the struggle of No Shelter! A Collective Against Gendered Violence can be found here
Everyone should read this issue of Viewpoint on Social Reproduction.
For an inspiring historical of the unemployed struggling over the conditions of welfare see The WOW factor: Wollongong’s unemployed and the dispossession of class and history
And listen to this killer track by Mutant Death (which features an on air argument between the scumbag Bob Hawke and dear comrade and friend Nick)
The Word From Struggle Street 