From Trash to Totes: Recycled Production and Cooperative Economy Practice in the Philippines.
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| Title: | From Trash to Totes: Recycled Production and Cooperative Economy Practice in the Philippines. |
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| Authors: | Milgram, B. Lynne1 |
| Source: | Human Organization. Spring2010, Vol. 69 Issue 1, p75-85. 11p. 1 Black and White Photograph. |
| Subject Terms: | *Waste recycling, *Conservation of natural resources, *Recyclable material, *Waste management, Product recovery, Social services |
| Geographic Terms: | Philippines |
| Abstract: | Scholarship on artisan cooperatives analyzes how collective frameworks can support members' social welfare needs and their production for local and international markets. Some artisans seeking more control over their work, for example, have used the global demand for goods that speak of equitable manufacturing and environmental sustainability to add value to their products. This paper engages this research by examining a Philippine women's collective-the Artisan Multipurpose Cooperative (AMC)-that manufactures innovative carrying bags, household furnishing accessories, and jewelry made from the recycled plastic juice drink containers and colored paper that members collect. While the AMC's exports of these recycled products are steadily increasing, members' efforts to simultaneously foster income generation with social support services continue as a project-in-process. At the same time as the AMC mobilizes resources, skills, and outreach opportunities to realize its equitable livelihood practice, artisans face competition from similar recycled goods made in other southern countries and confront class- based constraints on their work mobility within the cooperative. I suggest however, that despite these ongoing challenges, the AMC model of cooperative economy production still creates a realistic opportunity for women to develop a collective social criticism of gender and class inequality and to assume power over conditions of change. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
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