CARING WORK AND SUSTAINABLE COMMUNITY: The PWR Caring and Employment Projects

1. CARING WORK AND SUSTAINABLE COMMUNITY: The PWR Caring and Employment Projects PWR Caring/Employment Projects

2. 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. PWR Caring/Employment Projects

3. Deadly effects of globalization on family/community/society Transnational movement of capital and enterprises Children uncared for, upsurge of delinquency, domestic violence, mental and physical diseases, and general unrest Unemployment and low wages Obstinate poverty, and dissolution of families and communities Breadwinners leaving home PWR Caring/Employment Projects

4. 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”) PWR Caring/Employment Projects

5. 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 三、專業自主權及工作人員 　權益之充分保障 四、中產階級願意接受之水 　準之托育、照護福利服務 五、跨階級共享 六、維持人口及照顧 　服務系統之穩定性 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 • Universal caring services and full employment: sustainable development 良　性　循　環 PWR Caring/Employment Projects

6. (I) for 0 to 2-year-olds The Community Child-Minders’ Support System for 3 to 6-year-olds (II) The Community Day Care The Community Home Help Support System 0 year-old 99 year-olds The Community After-school Care (III) The Community Support System for Children in Trouble for school children for elderly&disabled people (Ⅴ) (Ⅳ) 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: PWR Caring/Employment Projects

7. 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 PWR Caring/Employment Projects

8. Democratic corporatism and participatory democracy: how we cooperate and negotiate with all the parties concerned Civil society Buffer zone: ˙Universal caring services ˙Democratic corporatism Market Government PWR Caring/Employment Projects

9. How we finance the caring projects • 政府補助（按優先順序）： • 社區照顧福利服務系統建立及運作經費補助 • 弱勢者使用費用補助 • 非弱勢者使用費用補助 • Government subsidies: • Underprivileged users’ fees • (Administration expenditures) • User’s fees: • Services providers’ salaries • Administration expenditures 使用者成本均攤 （非弱勢者自付額） PWR Caring/Employment Projects

10. 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 PWR Caring/Employment Projects

11. The unemployed or low-waged • The poverty eradication function of universal caring services 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 PWR Caring/Employment Projects

12. Universal caring services systems + Positive labor-market policy + Community self-government • Sustainable community under globalization Local full employment + Local businesses Sustainable development of the producing/reproducing network of the community + Earning and spending in the community PWR Caring/Employment Projects