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  1. steps-centre.org

    A history and analysis is provided of the movement for socially useful production, which flourished for a brief period in the UK in the 1970s and 1980s. Swimming against the rising tide of neo-liberalism, activists provided both a critique of the existing institutions for innovation in society, and developed a set of practical initiatives that ...
    • Grassroots Innovation: Historical and Comparative Perspectives

      Working Paper: Socially Useful Production. STEPS Working Paper 58 by Adrian Smith. A history and analysis is provided of the movement for socially useful production, which flourished for a brief period in the UK in the 1970s and 1980s. Swimming against the rising tide of neo-liberalism, activists provided both a critique of the existing ...

    • Adrian Smith

      by Adrian Smith, Adrian Ely and Phil Jones When Knowle West residents met with artists Paul Hurley and Caleb Parking in 2016, they had little idea they were at the…

    • Europe Hub

      by Patricia Pérez Belmont, Umbela Transformaciones Sostenibles How can research methods inform and catalyse change towards more sustainable worlds?

    • Africa

      The Africa Sustainability Hub has worked on research across innovation, sustainability and climate change in many African countries. It has also cultivated networks of researchers working on sustainable development in Africa.

    • Methods

      Explore examples, case studies and resources on methods for pathways to sustainability, informed by the STEPS Centre's Pathways Approach. Methods can help to explore diverse sources of knowledge or ways of seeing problems; they can also help to broaden out options to reveal possible ways forward.

    • Publications

      Download briefings, papers, reports and multimedia publications, and browse our book series, including open access titles.

  2. steps-centre.org

    socially useful production emerged from the bottom-up, in shop floors, in polytechnics, and in local communities (Blackburn et al. 1982; Collective Design/Project 1985). It is in this sense that activity for socially useful production was a grassroots innovation movement.
  3. rightlivelihood.org

    Mike Cooley (1934-2020) was an aerospace engineer who emerged as an innovator in the field of human-centred, socially useful production. As an active trade unionist, he dedicated his time and energy to ensuring that industrial production met the needs of people, including workers. He established networks to link community groups, universities ...
  4. blog.p2pfoundation.net

    The plan for socially useful production was a carefully phased process. Another Combine delegate, Mick Cooney, a fitter from Burnley, described the challenge: 'The Combine wanted to know what machine tools we had. To do the Corporate Plan we were having to think as if we were planning. It really made the shop stewards sit up.'
  5. pcritchley2.wixsite.com

    CELEBRATING THE LUCAS PLANSOCIALLY USEFUL PRODUCTIONThe Lucas Plan offers people ideas and direction with respect to the future of work and production and can serve as an example and inspiration to those seeking to transform the organisation and running of the economy - addressing questions of what we produce, how and to what end. The ideas are many, including Just Transition to a zero ...
  6. workerscontrol.net

    The movement for socially useful production prompts questions about connecting tacit knowledge and participatory prototyping to the political economy of technology development. In drawing up their Plan, shop stewards at Lucas turned initially to researchers at institutes throughout the UK. They received three replies.
  7. blog.p2pfoundation.net

    Thirty-eight years ago, a movement for 'socially useful production' pioneered practical approaches for more democratic technology development. It was in January 1976 that workers at Lucas Aerospace published an Alternative Plan for the future of their corporation.
  8. wiki.p2pfoundation.net

    The central feature of socially useful production is the development of ideas and organisation forms that encourage involvement, generate self confidence and release new found or rediscovered skills during the examination of how productive resources should be used to meet social needs. Initiatives promoting socially useful production must, in ...
  9. taylorfrancis.com

    Socially useful production was a grassroots innovation movement. This chapter explains the economic, political and social background from which the movement emerged. It analyses the movement's framings of technology and development, and describes movement spaces and strategies for socially useful production. Activities in socially useful ...
  10. workerscontrol.net

    Thirty-eight years ago, a movement for 'socially useful production' pioneered practical approaches for more democratic technology development. It was in January 1976 that workers at Lucas Aerospace published an Alternative Plan for the future of their corporation. It was a novel response to management announcements that thousands of ...

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