On Friday, November 21, 2014, CCPA-BC hosted a one-day conference called “A Good Jobs Economy in BC”, with support from the BC Federation of Labour, the Centre for Global Political Economy and the Progressive Economics Forum. The following papers were presented at the conference. Please note that these papers are not CCPA publications and have not been peer-reviewed. (Where there is no link, the paper is not currently available for public download.)
You can also read Seth Klein's summary of the key ideas presented at the conference.
- A Gateway to Good Jobs? Opening up the conversation
Peter Hall (Simon Fraser University)
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Jim Stanford (Unifor)
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- Green Jobs Across BC: Snapshots of an economy's "green shoots"
Jonathan Kassian (GreenJobs BC)
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- The Power of Local Purchasing
Charley Beresford (Columbia Institute)
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- Creating the Creative Economy: A better idea for BC’s economic future
Matt Toner (Zeroes 2 Heroes Media)
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- A Pivot to Manufacturing Jobs in BC: Imagining What it Would Take
Ken McFarlane
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- How Government Support for Social Enterprise Can Reduce Poverty and Green House Gasses
Lynne Fernandez (CCPA-MB)
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- Building Good Jobs, Cooperatively
Kevin Harding (BC Co-operative Association)
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- Sixteen Building Blocks for a Green, Entrepreneurial, Cooperative Economy
Guy Dauncey
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- Growing Good Agricultural Jobs in BC
Jessica Dennis, Anelyse Weiler and Hannah Wittman
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- Good Jobs require Healthy Ecosystems and Healthy Communities
Herb Hammond
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- How Public Sector Jobs Can Foster Community Economies
Janet Newbury
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- $10/day Child Care Advances Good Jobs Economy for BC
Lynell Anderson (Coalition of Child Care Advocates of BC)
- The Role of BC’s Public Service in a Good Jobs Economy: The Case of Environmental and Natural Resource Management
Megan Scott (BC Government and Service Employees’ Union)
- A Progressive Sustainable Jobs Agenda for British Columbia: The Role of BC’s Crown Corporations
Iain Reeve and Marvin Shaffer
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