Labour Transformation and In Institutional Re Re-arrangement A Preliminary Study of a Business and Employment Cooperative Mélissa BOUDES Assistant professor Institut Mines-Télécom Business School - France
In Institutional Orders Regulating Labour in in France Welfare regime Welfare regime Social Market State Bismarckian model economy Insurance based on the worker status Practice Employment Cooperation Entrepreneurship Marginalization of worker cooperative movement Negociation between unions and employers ’ Meaning Need for Need to be part Need for representatives autonomy protection of a collective
Welfare Regime Destabilisation and Grey Employment Zones Individualisation and digitalisation of work relations Self-employment and platforms 266 000 clicworkers Inability of the welfare regime to recreate appropriate solidarity links Unemployment 9% in 2018 and over 8% since 2008 Welfare regime deficit 2.2 billion euros in 2017
How cooperative movement can create new in institutional arrangements to respond to th the tr transformation of f la labour
Busin iness and Employment Cooperative Mentoring Work contracting Entrepreneurs keep their former status Cooperating From turnover to salary Individual support, Democratic workshops & governance meetings 200 BECs in France 7000 salaried-entrepreneurs Created in 2003 in Paris 3000 project holders with a support contract 800 members
Coopaname sele lective coupling – The Market Coopaname critises micro-entrepreneurship Market “ Most of the time, the micro- BUT entrepreneurship approach only gives the entrepreneur a micro- its members are autonomous Entrepreneurship income and micro-protection . ” in developing their activities, Members of the board writing in an academic journal on social economy their salaries fluctuate , Need for autonomy and they commercialise with their own brand
Coopaname sele lective coupling – The State “ State Coopaname uses salaried It is probably the time to contracts for the link to the redefine another way to welfare regime protection conceive the relationship with labour […] Especially removing Employment the notion of subordination, BUT which, for us, really corresponds to a completely feudal system Critises the subordination ” relationship characterizing it Need for protection Former co-director
Coopaname sele lective coupling – The Social Economy “ Coopaname relies heavily on What is at stake is not size or cooperative principles, Social institutional recognition, but economy the disastrous lack of a offers the opportunity to political project shared by change and/or have multiple activities social economy organisations Cooperation to sustain the whole economy . […] we have to assume that organises collective events fostering mutual support the mission of the social economy is not simply to BUT Need to be part create employment, but to of a collective criticises the weakness of the ” develop new forms of labor . political movement of the social economy Former co-director
New Institutional Arr rrangement at Meso-level • Welfare regime disruption • Inefficiency and decreasing legitimacy Macro level • Coopaname selective coupling • Meso-level institutional arrangement Meso level • Education, training, information Micro level • Individuals urgency • Autonomy, security, collective
Thank you melissa.boudes@imt-bs.eu
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