Hi John
Do you mean like LETS schemes - Local Exchange Trading Systems?
If so, experience, views...
My partner is on our local LETS scheme - here we have the Clee, named
after a big local hill. That aside, some time ago when I was pondering
what to do for my doctoral research, this was one of the first things I
considered. I was wondering about what LETS schemes might offer to people
being seen in mental health services. I was thinking about how for some
people, they were not feeling up to working and had few resources and
social contacts, perhaps, as a knock-on effect. I was aware that some days
they might feel up to working and therefore could trade their work on
these days, but they would dictate and choose what work they got involved
in, etc, rather than some shit, oppressive workplace. I was also thinking
about the possible social inclusion/networking element. So I started
asking a few people already in schemes what they thought about this
question (the question being something like, what could LETS offer to
people using mental health services?). I also discussed this quite a bit
with Jim Orford as he was supervising my research at the time. Basically,
what seemed to emerge was that the people I spoke to felt these schemes
were quite middle class and quite clique-y, and that often what would
happen, is that particular people would connect with other people like
them and them pull out of the scheme and support each other - which might
be good but they had the feeling that this left some people quite
marginalised. I wasn't able to find any literature other than the internet
threw up something about a LETS project with people who use mental health
services, I think it was near Manchester, or somewhere. It's probably
still in cyberspace.
Penny
> Hi,
> I wondered if anyone had any experience of, or views about, or
> references on complimentary currencies in local communities. (Stuff like
> the Brixton Brick project or the Totnes Pound).
>
> Many thanks for any thoughts.
>
> John
>
> Dr John McGowan
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