CARING WORK AND SUSTAINABLE COMMUNITY: The PWR Caring and Employment Projects
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Salaries Created by PWR Caring and Employment Projects: 2005
*Beginning from August, 2005, after school care has been relegated to local NPO providers. Therefore the employers, clients, and salaries of this service are not included in the sum total.
Child minders
housekeeping Home helpAfter school
Care*
Adminis-trationstaff
TotalAt child minder’s
home
At parent’s home
Postpartum care
Employers(persons)
151 78 49 1373 90 349 651806
(after school care not included)
Clients(Persons/families)
151 89 311 4498 170 4044 5219
(after school care not included)
Monthly salary (NT&)
26484 34255 24736 18000
Total 28,121,000 25,202,150 20,142,000 414,340,536 19,440,000 32,598,026 25,074,133 564,917,845
(US$17,382,087)
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Deadly effects of globalization on family/community/society
Transnational movement of capital and enterprises
Unemployment and low wages
Breadwinners leaving home
Obstinate poverty, and dissolution of families and communities
Children uncared for, upsurge of delinquency, domestic violence, mental and physical diseases, and general unrest
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Two solutions:
The Scandinavian systems of universal care and full employment
The Confucian Da-Tong Shi-Jie (World of Peace) ideal of “care and employment for all” (“ 老有所終，壯有所用，幼有所長，鰥寡孤獨皆有所養” )
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Universal caring services and full employment: sustainable development
六、維持人口及照顧 服務系統之穩定性
五、跨階級共享
三、專業自主權及工作人員 權益之充分保障
七、中下階層享用中產 階 級水準之托育及照護服務
八、充分就業及幼托、照護全面中產階級化，提昇生活品質及人口 ( 勞動力 ) 素質，達到全面去普羅化
九、社會團結、 祥和、安定
十、經貿活絡，社會繁榮 國庫充裕，回饋福利
一、托育及照護 福利服務制度 ＋ 就業及家庭支持
二、國家和社會資源 之充分投入
四、中產階級願意接受之水 準之托育、照護福利服務
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The PWR caring projects aim to develop and propagate non-profit caring systems that offer reliable and affordable services for 0 to 99-year-olds:
for 0 to 2-year-olds
for 3 to 6-year-olds
for school children
99 year-olds
The Community Day Care
The Community After-school Care
0 year-old
The Community Home Help Support System
The Community Child-Minders’ Support System
The Community Support System for Children in Trouble
for elderly&disabled people
(I)
(II)
(III)
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( ) Ⅴ
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Unionization of the caring workers
PWR Foundation does not employ the caring workers; it helps them to form and operate their own unions.
The unions take care of the workers’ Medical insurance Pension Liability insurance Recreational and cultural activities Negotiation with PWR administrative teams
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Democratic corporatism and participatory democracy:
how we cooperate and negotiate with all the parties concerned
Civil society
Government
Buffer zone:˙Universal caring services˙Democratic corporatism
Market
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How we finance the caring projects
使用者成本均攤（非弱勢者自付額）
政府補助（按優先順序）：1.社區照顧福利服務系統建立及運作經費補助2.弱勢者使用費用補助3.非弱勢者使用費用補助
User’s fees:1. Services providers’
salaries2. Administration exp
enditures
Government subsidies:1. Underprivileged
users’ fees2. (Administration
expenditures)
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Egalitarian sharing and deproletarianization
• Universal flat-tier caring services• Full employment
• Service quality level meeting middleclass users’ standard• Inclusion of all classes in one system• Deproletarianization: upgrading of lower classes’ abilities, living standard and social relations
• Social solidarity• Peace and prosperity for all
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The poverty eradication function of universal caring services
The unemployed or low-waged
Non-profit universal caring services systems offer great quantities of jobs with reasonable salaries
Living, caring, and education of reasonable standards
Eradication of cross-generation vicious circle of poverty
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Sustainable community under globalization
Universal caring services systems + Positive labor-market policy + Community self-government
Earning and spending in the community
Sustainable development of the producing/reproducing network of the community
Local full employment + Local businesses
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