lifetime membership in Yugoslavia
NISHIO Hirokazu (@nishio.bsky.social) 2024-02-11 11:21
In order to store knowledge capital and social-relationship capital in the company, it necessarily have to be membership-based employment rather than job-based. Isn’t it?
Nemanja (@udarnik.net)
Like a cooperative?
NISHIO Hirokazu
Membership-based employment is closely associated with the lifetime employment, which once common practice of in Japan. It is an employment system that provides incentives for being a member of a company community throughout one's lifetime.
Nemanja
It sounds a lot like cooperatives since they are also membership based, such as the ones in Basque Country. In my country, ex Yugoslavia, we had something similar as well. It used to be called "organisation of joint labour". The good bit about it is that workers also participated in directing.
NISHIO Hirokazu
Interesting. I'll google them.
Nemanja
This might be of help: Mondragon Corporation - Wikipedia I am not sure about the details how it works in terms of corporations, but all other types of cooperatives in Spain require you to become a member with some type of participation in terms of capital or membership.
Mondragon Corporation
Nemanja
In the case of Yugoslavia, the "lifetime membership/employment" was linked more with the fact that legally it was difficult to lay workers off, and that typically workers would never lay off workers (given that the decision-making in the company was shared among employees/collective members).
NISHIO Hirokazu
I didn't know much about the Mondragon Cooperative Corporation, but when I looked into it, I found it to be very interesting. Thank you for telling me about it!
Nemanja
Happy to help!
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