Synopsis

This unit enables you to hear about some of the participants in the Local Exchange and Trading Schemes (LETS). These are associations of people who make offers of goods and services to and from each other. What is on offer and the requests people make are listed in local directories.

Table of Contents

Introduction
Learning outcomes
1 LETS: A community development
2 Liz Shepherd and Jan Hurst
3 Peter, Roger, Rachel, Jenny and Veera
4 Audio activity
5 Comment on the audio clips
6 Limitations of LETS
8 Perspectives
Next steps
References
Acknowledgements

 

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