Community Self-Help in Visions of Future Political Organisation

Abstract

In this book, we have shown that with the exception of much of the old left, there is widespread support across the political spectrum for the cultivation of some version of community self-help. But significant differences exist in what activity is supported, why it is supported, who should be encouraged to engage in such activity and the role it is seen to play in work and welfare provision. In this concluding chapter we start by pulling together these threads and analysing how community self-help is conceptualised in alternative visions of the future.