ABSTRACT
From the East of the North there emerges a new political economy of employment, to look beyond standard industrial production to one based in ecological principles and recreation. Sustainable employment is increasingly adopting circular working methods. These embody an energetic recreation, fostering an ethos of in-built, regenerative work. Effecting in the West of the South, evolving patterns of communal organisation are showing how the employment of community is being practically worked-out, through confederal association, based in the common ownership of property, generates communitalism, visibly reflected in movements of intentional community. The Self has been disintegrating under the conditions of postmodernity and, indeed, in the current age of integrality. The connectedness of the hyper-digital age is enabling some new aspects of self-realisation, as vocation is understood in relation to service of others and, indeed, for some of a 'higher purpose' or God. Connecting in the age of integrality is key to understanding how evolving work will proceed in the coming decades.
