Tackling social exclusion with community currencies: Learning from LETS to time banks

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Working Outside the Box: Community Currencies, Time Banks and Social Inclusion (2004, background): “…and also keeps records of time spent and earned; finally, and not inconsiderably, the government’s ruling on encouraging participation by the unemployed is a major advance on LETS, whose participants were treated as though they were earning money income by the benefits agency (Seyfang, 2002).”
Local currencies for purposive degrowth? A quality check of some proposals for changing money-as-usual (2013, background): “The broker assists members in identifying their abilities and opportunities for feeling of use to the community, and the fixed hourly rate emphasizes the value of everyday skills (Seyfang, 2002).”
Desperately seeking niches: Grassroots innovations and niche development in the community currency field (2013, background): “…research has examined community currencies as initiatives to: tackle social exclusion and unemployment (Williams et al., 2001; Pearson, 2003; Seyfang, 2001b, 2002, 2003, 2004); localise economies and improve resilience (Graugaard, 2012; Gregory, 2009); build social capital and civic…”