Labour
Italian Social Cooperatives
by Sabeeha Maithir
The mammoth task of poverty alleviation places much strain on governments around the world. In Italy, it has been found that cooperatives brought relief to the financial strain on the national system of social welfare. Like South Africa, Italy had rather high unemployment rates. Cooperatives were developed to supply welfare services to the economically weaker layers of society. The primary objective of the Italian Social Cooperative is to facilitate integration of the disadvantaged back into society, through job creation
December 18, 2008 at 2:26 pm |
Thanks for the link. It is quite interesting to see an African perspective on the Italian models. I know I’ve found the Trentino federation and Co-op Italia systems very inspiring as models for how we could restructure the economy.