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Women and the Recession

The Impact of the Recession on Women

This paper, produced by The Australia Institute examines the experience of Australian women during recent recessions in order to construct a framework within which the policy response to the current recession can be assessed and improved.

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Progressive Governance and the Global Financial Crisis: A Handbook of Ideas

Responses to the Global Crisis: Charting a Progressive Path

Catalyst is pleased to feature access to the "Handbook of Ideas" on Progressive Governance.

This “Handbook of Ideas” brings together short policy recommendations and proposals by leading international thinkers on how progressives should approach the major economic and political challenges thrown up by the global crisis.

Featuring articles and ideas on development, welfare, climate change, workers rights and trade to name just a few, the Handbook is a unique collation of ideas on this unique period of history through which we are all living.

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Taming Free Market Capitalism: Consequences for a new era

Journalist Andrew West takes a look at moves, both globally and in Australia, to tame free market capitalism and explores the poltical consequences of this new era. Catalyst gets an honorable mention and the report contains interviews with Catalyst's David McKnight and Jon Cruddas.

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The Crash: a view from the Left

Edited by Compass UK's Jon Cruddas & Johnathan Rutherford, this publication examines the roots of the current economic, social and environmental crisis and brings to life a vision of a new world which can pave the way forward to an equitable and sustainable future.

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The Story of Stuff

Stuff! We're surrounded by it everyday. Our desks are clogged with it, our homes overflow with it and our land and sea is literally being destroyed by it. Stuff. Do you wonder where it comes from? What it's really costing us?

The Story of Stuff [external website -video] by Annie Leonard and Louis Fox exposes the connections between a huge number of environmental and social issues, and calls us together to create a more sustainable and just world. It'll teach you something, it'll make you laugh, and it just may change the way you look at all the stuff in your life forever.

Video: 20min - 9th January 08 on Share The World's Resources (STWR)'s website.

 
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