Social Co-operatives in Italy

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sara Depedri
Keyword(s):  
Social Services ◽  
Organizational Form ◽  
Added Value ◽  
General Interest ◽  
Bottom Up ◽  
Economic Context ◽  
Welfare Systems ◽  
Recent Trends ◽  
Work Integration ◽  
Disadvantaged People

Starting from the 1970s, some co-operatives distinguished themselves for their interest in producing social services and for their social aims. They emerged in order to answer new needs arising in society, and specifically the difficulties faced by welfare systems. Co-operatives started to assume a new role as welfare providers and suppliers of general-interest services and work integration of disadvantaged people. This new co-operative form first emerged in Italy during the 1980s as a bottom-up phenomenon. The first regulation on social co-operatives was enacted in Italy by Law 381/1991. This chapter illustrates the emergence, the evolution, and the most recent trends of Italian social co-operation in order to define the main traits that helped social co-operatives become a successful organizational form in the provision of welfare services. This chapter also contributes to evaluating the added value of this co-operative form in the socio-economic context.

scholarly journals Social services of general interest: coordinating european, national and local actions for social inclusion. The EKKA network as a case-study

2016 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Petros Tsantilas
Keyword(s):  
European Union ◽  
Social Services ◽  
Social Inclusion ◽  
Quality Management System ◽  
Local Level ◽  
Functional System ◽  
Added Value ◽  
Social Solidarity ◽  
General Interest ◽  
The European Union

<p>This paper contributes to the development of a broader framework for the identification of the key features of a functional system of social services and benefits. This should allow for the elaboration of a social services’ network ruled by common general principles and values. Related to this subject is the aim to determine –based on international experience and practices– the best way to deal with both local and national needs and vice versa. After introducing the framework of analysis used to interpret the experiences of social services providers across the European Union, we present the EKKA (National Centre for Social Solidarity) Network as an example of a coordination pole connecting the<br />European, the national as well as the local level. We conclude this paper by highlighting the civic added value of the activities of social services, and<br />voluntary social services in particular, with regard to the European Union and in the light of criteria such as their non-profit character, the special legal mandate given to them as civic actors, their mission within society, working with volunteers in particular, and their quality management system used to maintain adequate quality standards.</p>

scholarly journals Disability and work intensity in Italian households

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elena Calegari ◽  
Enrico Fabrizi ◽  
Chiara Mussida
Keyword(s):  
Labour Market ◽  
Social Services ◽  
Family Relationship ◽  
Market Participation ◽  
Work Intensity ◽  
Persons With Disabilities ◽  
Labour Market Participation ◽  
The Family ◽  
Welfare Systems ◽  
The Disabled

AbstractThe 2030 Agenda of the United Nations clearly sets the inclusion of persons with disabilities in the labour market as a main goal. However, especially in care welfare systems characterized by a low level of social services, disability not only impacts the labour market participation of disabled people themselves but may also affect the labour opportunities of other members of their household. Using EU-SILC data to compute individual work intensity-as a better measure of the actual level of labour attainment-this paper aims to disentangle direct and indirect correlations between disability and labour market participation in Italian households. In confirming the negative direct correlation between disability and labour market participation, the results also show a negative indirect correlation that depends on the family relationship between the disabled person and household members.

Der apollinisch-dionysische Geist der Sozialpolitik und der Gemeinwirtschaft

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Frank Schulz-Nieswandt
Keyword(s):  
Social Policy ◽  
Social Services ◽  
Logical Form ◽  
Welfare Economics ◽  
Philosophy Of History ◽  
General Interest ◽  
Historical Dynamics ◽  
Caring Communities ◽  
Services Of General Interest ◽  
Free People

In this book, the historical dynamics of social policy, common welfare economics and the politics of social services of general interest, justified by personalist ethics, are understood as endogenous, dialectical mechanisms of the polarity between the principles of Apollonian order and Dionysian transgression; as a logical form of the philosophy of history on the ontological pathway to the concrete utopia of the truth of socially caring communities comprised of free people living according to their belief in reciprocal responsibility; and as a system of solidarity based on love.

The Administration of Human Services

1985 ◽  
Vol 479 (1) ◽  
pp. 67-81 ◽  
Author(s):  
YEHESKEL HASENFELD
Keyword(s):  
Social Services ◽  
Human Service ◽  
Service Workers ◽  
The Public ◽  
Economic Context ◽  
Service Programs ◽  
Cutback Management ◽  
The 1960S ◽  
Human Service Programs ◽  
Administrative Strategies

Human service programs have gone from a period of rapid growth in the 1960s and early 1970s to a period of retrenchment in the 1980s. The changing political and economic context has forced these programs to undergo major organizational transformations and to adopt different administrative strategies. These include degovernmentalization of social services, reliance on cutback management, and deprofessionalization of human-service workers. The article explores the implications of these developments on the delivery of services to the public.

Relationship Between Mission Drift and Financial Strategies in Social Enterprises

2019 ◽  
pp. 151-167
Author(s):  
Ramon Bastida ◽  
Marta Mas-Machuca
Keyword(s):  
Social Services ◽  
Social Enterprises ◽  
Board Members ◽  
Mission Drift ◽  
The Public ◽  
Care Services ◽  
The Social ◽  
Financial Strategies ◽  
Work Integration ◽  
Financial Dependency

Social enterprises (SEs) have an important role in the social services provision. Many of those enterprises provide services, such as care services to elderly people and young people at risk of exclusion, work integration services, mediation, etc. In European Union (EU) countries, public administrations are obliged to provide these services to the citizens, although they externalize the provision to SEs. In this chapter, the financial strategies of SEs are analyzed in order to assess if they have any impact on mission drift. The analysis is based on the experiences of three SEs that provide social services in Catalonia, Spain. Several interviews with managers and board members of SEs were done. The results indicate that there is an important financial dependency of these SEs on the public administration. Therefore, SEs have problems to remain mission-focused, and a mission drift into market positions has been observed.

Personal Autonomy as Institutional Form – Focus on Europe Against the Background of Article 27 of the ICCPR

2008 ◽  
Vol 15 (2-3) ◽  
pp. 157-178 ◽  
Author(s):  
Markku Suksi
Keyword(s):  
Personal Autonomy ◽  
Organizational Form ◽  
Private Law ◽  
Institutional Form ◽  
Top Down ◽  
Bottom Up ◽  
Governmental Organizations ◽  
Non Governmental Organizations ◽  
The Creation ◽  
Membership Associations

AbstractFor an attempt to establish an institutional content for personal autonomy, it is submitted that the reference to ‘community’ in Article 27 of the CCPR implies a certain form of organization. Persons who belong to minorities shall have the complete freedom to organize themselves in associations of various kinds in order to pursue common aims. The notion of ‘association’ includes, on the top of regular membership associations, a broader spectrum of private law entities, but the main point is that there shall be a freedom for a minority in the creation of non-governmental organizations, leading to personal autonomy as an organizational form. It is hence not necessarily so that all forms of autonomy are created on the basis of special legislation, endowing the autonomous character for the minority institution from top-down. A bottom-up creation of minority institutions can actually involve a right to personal autonomy.

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