Cooperatives and the World of Work (eBook, ePUB)

Redaktion: Roelants, Bruno; Katajamäki, Waltteri; Novkovic, Sonja; Esim, Simel; Eum, Hyungsik

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Challenges the narrow understanding of cooperatives as a mere business model and raise debate on the more fundamental role that cooperatives play in responding to social changes and in changing society itself.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 276
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. Juli 2019
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000012071
• Artikelnr.: 57141663

Autorenporträt

Bruno Roelants is the Director General of International Co-operative Alliance and was formerly Secretary General of CICOPA and of its regional organization, CECOP CICOPA-Europe. Hyungsik Eum is the Data Analyst at CICOPA and Strategy and Statistics Coordinator of the International Co-operative Alliance. Simel E¿im is the Head of the Cooperatives Unit of the International Labour Office in Geneva. Prior to this, she was a Senior Technical Specialist in the ILO's Regional Office for Arab States. Sonja Novkovic is Chair of the Committee on Cooperative Research of the International Co-operative Alliance Research Committee. She is also the Academic Director in the Co-operative Management Education program and Professor of Economics at Saint Mary's University in Halifax, Canada. Waltteri Katajamäki works at the International Labour Office in Geneva as a Technical Officer on Rural Economy and previously worked at the ILO's Cooperatives Unit.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction. 1. Work and cooperatives: A century of ILO interaction with
the cooperative movement. 2. Cooperatives and the future of work. 3.
Cooperatives and fundamental principles and rights at work: Natural
disposition or commitment to action?. 4. The autonomy or heteronomy of
cooperative worker ownership. 5. Work and employment in the informal
economy and new forms of work: How can the cooperative model be an answer.
6. "Coffee has given us Power to Act": Coffee cooperatives and women
empowerment in Rwanda's rural areas - A case study of Karaba coffee
cooperative. 7. The changing cooperative landscape in the world of work: A
study of women empowerment through participatory strategies in India. 8.
Waste cooperatives in Brazil: Exploring links between cooperative ideals
and raising gender awareness. 9. Cooperatives and trade unions: From
occasional partners to builders of a solidarity-based society. 10. Saving
jobs and businesses in times of crisis: The Italian road to creating worker
cooperatives from worker buyouts. 11. Cooperatives of independent workers
in Finland: A unique forum for self-employment. 12. Labour transformation
and institutional re-arrangement in France: A preliminary study of a
business and employment cooperative. 13. Multi-stakeholder cooperatives as
a means for jobs creation and social transformation. 14. An internet of
ownership: Democratic design for the online economy. Conclusion. Index