Economic Self-Help: How and Why

Worldview ◽  
1981 ◽  
Vol 24 (9) ◽  
pp. 17-19
Author(s):  
Sudhir Sen
Keyword(s):  
Life And Death ◽  
Self Help ◽  
Economic Stagnation ◽  
Do It Yourself ◽  
Industrial Societies ◽  
Double Digit

In recent years much has been said and written about the economics of small units and the virtues of individual or cooperative self-help. This trend has been spurred by several factors. The soaring cost of oil underscored the need to conserve energy and eliminate waste by every conceivable srneans. The spiraling cost of food, even in America; has made kitchen gardening more rewarding. The outbreak of double-digit inflation has forced many families to undertake more do-it-yourself jobs. The persistence of economic stagnation in industrial societies with stubbornly high rates of unemployment has impelled more people to create work for themselves. And there is the appalling case of poor nations, burdened with burgeoning populations, where the search for food and jobs has become a matter of life and death.

“We’re Doing It Ourselves”

2016 ◽  
Vol 16 (2) ◽  
pp. 162-174 ◽  
Author(s):  
Suleiman Osman
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Community Gardens ◽  
Tree Planting ◽  
Budget Cuts ◽  
Parks And Recreation ◽  
Self Help ◽  
New Public ◽  
History Of ◽  
Left And Right ◽  
Do It Yourself

While the privatization of parks has been controversial since the 1980s, the origins of public–private parks in New York City were complex. During the 1970s fiscal crisis, the Parks and Recreation Department suffered severe budget cuts and was forced to reduce services drastically. Faced with parks that were falling apart, thousands of volunteers in block associations and community groups began to maintain parks on their own. They pioneered radical forms of “do-it-yourself” urbanism with guerrilla horticulture, community gardens, children-fashioned adventure playgrounds, tree-planting drives, makeshift ambulances, and volunteer patrols. By the early 1980s, these “self-help” efforts coalesced into new public–private parks. The history of public–private parks is thus one of privatizations in the plural and points to an array of antistatist impulses that emerged on both the left and right in the 1970s.

ToeHold Artisans Collaborative: Building Entrepreneurial Capabilities to Tackle Poverty

2008 ◽  
Vol 12 (02) ◽  
pp. 187-213 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sindhu Shanmugam ◽  
S. Ramakrishna Velamuri
Keyword(s):  
Social Enterprises ◽  
Non Profit ◽  
Self Help ◽  
Economic Stagnation ◽  
Effective Organization ◽  
Set Up ◽  
Self Help Groups ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Group Enterprise

Toehold Artisans Collaborative (TAC) is a project launched by the Asian Center for Entrepreneurship Initiatives (ASCENT), a non-profit organization based in Bangalore, to build entrepreneurial capacity in a community of footwear artisans of the small southern Indian town of Athani. Prior to ASCENT's involvement, which began in 1998, the artisans of Athani were making a subsistence wage, which did not even guarantee them two square meals a day. They could not send their children to school and were thus suffering from economic stagnation. TAC is an established Group Enterprise of 14 women Self Help Groups (SHG). Even though women's SHGs are the direct stakeholders, the men are not left out — they are treated as co-preneurs for all inputs, exposure to international fairs and production purposes. The front end of TAC is a customer-centric business enterprise that has taken the exquisite footwear brand 'ToeHold™' to challenging international mainstream markets. The backend is an artisan-centric social enterprise striving for improvement in the quality of life of about 400 artisans' families. The case documents how TAC was set up and evolved during the 1998–2006 period, the challenges it faced and continues to face, and the impact it has had on the artisan community. It is useful for examining the effective organization and running of social enterprises.

scholarly journals Etyka w społeczeństwie skomputeryzowanym. Problem izolacji komunikacji współczesnej

Etyka ◽  
1988 ◽  
Vol 24 ◽  
pp. 205-228
Author(s):  
Peter Kemp
Keyword(s):  
Communication Systems ◽  
Interpersonal Relations ◽  
Ethical Criticism ◽  
Long Distance ◽  
Working At Home ◽  
Face To Face ◽  
The Third ◽  
Self Help ◽  
Jean Paul ◽  
Do It Yourself

This paper deals with an important aspect of ethics in computer society: isolation in communication systems. In the first part the author analyses the notion of self-help intimated by the computer’s many possibilities for “do-it-yourself” and working at home. Some experiments (from Denmark and Japan) concerning “the electronic cottage” prove that modern electronic communication entails the risk of being isolated and perverted by the narcissistic love of privacy. The second part focuses on some moral philosophers (especially Jean-Paul Sartre in his posthumous ethics) in order to define an ethics of help in interpersonal relations. This ethics is opposed to the ethics of self-help and may constitute a foundation for an ethical criticism of computer society. In the third part the limits of the personalist ethics of help are recognized: this ethics stresses face-to-face relations, but today it is necessary to take new considerations into account regarding responsibility at long distance in the space and time of electronic society.

scholarly journals Self-Help Housing in Indonesia

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
hendro muliarto
Keyword(s):  
Housing Policy ◽  
Urban Housing ◽  
General Information ◽  
The Self ◽  
Urban Village ◽  
Self Help ◽  
Low Incomes ◽  
Do It Yourself ◽  
The City ◽  
Urban Villages

The urgency of the problem of urban housing, presents the concept of self-help housing (self-help and do-it-yourself) who today continue to be expanded as new housing policy that is pro-poor to actively support the citizens to build housing initiative itself and reduce the burden of government in the provision of housing. Indonesia's self-help housing is often associated with urban village. Self-help housing means build house your own self without government help and the urban village is a village located in the city inhabited by natives and immigrants with low incomes. This urban village itself is often associated with the legality status of land, disorder and squalor than the forerunner of strong housing. In some cases urban villages deemed to have disturbing demolished and cause various conflicts between citizens and government. This paper wants to show the self-help housing formations in Indonesia in addition to get general information of self-help housing and to know about the sustainability of self-help housing in Indonesia.

Do it yourself? Self-help and online therapy for people with obsessive-compulsive disorder

2011 ◽  
Vol 24 (6) ◽  
pp. 541-548 ◽  
Author(s):  
Steffen Moritz ◽  
Charlotte E. Wittekind ◽  
Marit Hauschildt ◽  
Kiara R. Timpano
Keyword(s):  
Obsessive Compulsive Disorder ◽  
Online Therapy ◽  
Obsessive Compulsive ◽  
Compulsive Disorder ◽  
Self Help ◽  
Do It Yourself

scholarly journals THE SELF AND SELF-HELP: WOMEN PURSUING AUTONOMY IN POST-WAR BRITAIN

2019 ◽  
Vol 29 ◽  
pp. 201-221 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lynn Abrams
Keyword(s):  
Personal Growth ◽  
Models Of Care ◽  
Self Confidence ◽  
Self Help ◽  
Women's Lives ◽  
History Of ◽  
Do It Yourself ◽  
1960S And 1970S ◽  
Post War ◽  
The 1960S

ABSTRACTIn the history of post-war womanhood in Britain, women's self-help organisations are credited with little significance save for ‘helping mothers to do their work more happily’. This paper suggests that the do-it-yourself impetus of the 1960s and 1970s should be regarded as integral to understanding how millions of women negotiated a route towards personal growth and autonomy. Organisations like the National Housewives’ Register, the National Childbirth Trust and the Pre-School Playgroups Association emerged from the grass roots in response to the conundrum faced by women who experienced dissatisfaction and frustration in their domestic role. I argue that these organisations offered thousands of women the opportunity for self-development, self-confidence and independence and that far from being insufficiently critical of dominant models of care, women's self-help operating at the level of the everyday was to be one of the foundations of what would become, by the 1970s, the widespread feminist transformation of women's lives.

Women's Groups and Income Generation in Swaziland

1992 ◽  
Vol 14 (4) ◽  
pp. 19-23
Author(s):  
C. Green
Keyword(s):  
Local Community ◽  
Local Level ◽  
Statistical Correlation ◽  
Income Generation ◽  
Development Organizations ◽  
Self Help ◽  
Local Organizations ◽  
The 1950S ◽  
Do It Yourself ◽  
Self Help Groups

Women's self-help groups known as zenzele ("do-it-yourself") have existed in Swaziland since the 1950s, but until recently they received little recognition or support. In 1984 a survey of local-level development organizations showed that zenzele were among the most ubiquitous and self-sufficient local organizations in Swaziland. The survey further discovered a positive statistical correlation between the existence of zenzele groups and the number of other development organizations in the local community.

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