The Ecocenter Homeservice company has three main objects:1. To do
cleaning and gardening in an environmentally friendly way and
thereby spread ecological ideas and practices into people’s
homes.2. To create socially good jobs in the homeservice branch,
which is normally characterised by lonely jobs without social and
professional development. 3. To create real jobs for a group of
primarily older unemployed, whose changes of re-enter the labour
market is low. The Ecological Garden is trying to realise a
socio-ecological company on ordinary market based terms, with the
government financially supporting in order to meet the needs of
busy families or old people and to move these activities away from
the ‘black economy’. The Ecological Homeservice introduced ecology
to a broad group of people. The everyday life and the homes are
important arenas for development of perceptions and practices.The
social experiences are mixed. By establishing the homeservice
company in connection with the jobtraining in the Ecocenter, a
long and continuously development process can be offered to a
group of unemployed, making them able to get a foothold in the
labour market. But even though the homeservice meets a demand,
there is reason to question the working environment of this
branch. The overall conclusion of the evaluation is that the
Ecological Homeservice offers a very interesting approach to a
socio-ecological company which can and should inspire others - and
which should have room for development.
| Number of pages | 18 |
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| Publication status | Published - 1999 |
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