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Nishio (@nishio.bsky.social) 2024-02-11 11:21 In order to accumulate knowledge capital and SOC in a company, it must necessarily be membership-based employment, not job type. Am I wrong?
Nemanja (@udarnik.net) cooperative?
Nishio Membership-based employment is closely related to lifetime employment, which was once common in Japan. It is an employment system that incentivizes being a member of a corporate community throughout one’s lifetime.
Nemanja It is similar to a cooperative because cooperatives like the one in the Basque Country are also membership based. We had something similar in my country (former Yugoslavia). It used to be called “a communal labor organization. The good thing about it was that workers also participated in supervision.
Nishio Interesting. I’ll have to google it.
Nemanja This may be useful: Mondragon Corporation - Wikipedia I don’t know the details of how it works as a legal entity, but other types of cooperatives in Spain All cooperatives require some form of capital or membership to participate and become a member.
Nemanja In the case of Yugoslavia, “lifetime membership/lifetime employment” was more tied to the fact that it is legally difficult to fire a worker and workers generally do not fire workers (given that company decisions are shared by employees/union members). - layoff restrictions
Nishio I didn’t know much about Mondragon Cooperative, but I found it very interesting when I looked into it. Thanks for letting me know!
Nemanja Glad I could help!
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