Pandemic or endemic: older women and the toxic workplace

During the pandemic, economic, social and labour market impacts first hit younger women, particularly mothers working more casualised sectors and facing a sharp increase of unpaid work in the home. When Grassroots Research commenced the Generation Expendable? study in mid-2020, Australia’s pandemic fallout was already Read More …

New Release! “Degrowth in the Suburbs”

New Release! Degrowth in the Suburbs: A Radical Urban Imaginary, by Sam Alexander and Brendan Gleeson.

This book addresses a central dilemma of the urban age: how to make suburban landscapes sustainable in the face of planetary ecological crisis. The authors argue that degrowth, a planned contraction of overgrown economies, is the most coherent paradigm for suburban renewal.

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