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Attempting to Work Co‐operatively in Queensland
Author(s) -
Halladay Allan,
Peile Colin
Publication year - 1989
Publication title -
australian journal of social issues
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.417
H-Index - 30
eISSN - 1839-4655
pISSN - 0157-6321
DOI - 10.1002/j.1839-4655.1989.tb00857.x
Subject(s) - project commissioning , work (physics) , publishing , welfare , process (computing) , sociology , public relations , management , style (visual arts) , community work , engineering , political science , economics , law , computer science , geography , archaeology , mechanical engineering , operating system
This paper reports the results of a search for groups attempting to work cooperatively in Queensland. Results indicate there is a small number of people attempting to work co‐operatively but the initiatives are tiny operations dependent upon a lot of lowly paid hard work and external help from friends or the local community. Four types of co‐operative efforts were identified: the traditional, the alternative life style, the welfare oriented and the idealist The growth of worker co‐operatives in Queensland will be dependent upon a long process of development, education, research and dialogue, along with the tireless efforts of those committed to the co‐operative philosophy.