{"id":6049,"date":"2010-12-01T16:33:48","date_gmt":"2010-12-01T16:33:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/?p=6049"},"modified":"2010-12-01T16:33:48","modified_gmt":"2010-12-01T16:33:48","slug":"house-cleaning-co-ops","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/?p=6049","title":{"rendered":"house cleaning co-ops"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, the <a href=\"http:\/\/activecitizen.tufts.edu\/?pid=344\">Tufts Community Research Center<\/a>, of which I&#8217;m a member, gave an honorable mention award to the <a href=\"http:\/\/verdeamarelo.org\/home\">Brazilian Women&#8217;s Group<\/a>. Faculty from Tufts and community leaders have described this group&#8217;s co-op project in a <a href=\"http:\/\/engineering.tufts.edu\/cee\/people\/gute\/gute_AJPH_VidaVerde.pdf\">research article<\/a> that they wrote together. The co-op is a business that provides house-cleaning services, with fair wages and benefits for the workers and green cleaning products. It has proved a successful model locally, and I see huge potential for workers&#8217; co-ops in the cleaning business. The Brazilian Women&#8217;s Group also provides a clinic, education, legal services, and lobbying&#8211;a mix of functions that is typical in the nonprofit sector and highly productive.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, the Tufts Community Research Center, of which I&#8217;m a member, gave an honorable mention award to the Brazilian Women&#8217;s Group. Faculty from Tufts and community leaders have described this group&#8217;s co-op project in a research article that they wrote together. The co-op is a business that provides house-cleaning services, with fair wages and benefits [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6049","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6049","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6049"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6049\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6049"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6049"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6049"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}