일본의 노동자협동조합 운영현황 및 활용사례 연구

Abstract

This study focuses on worker cooperatives, which are attracting attention as an alternative to solving various problems in the region through diversification of work methods amid the accelerated stagnation of the local economy, and examines cases of local regeneration using worker cooperatives in Japan. saw. A brief summary of the analysis results is as follows.
 First, the emergence of worker cooperatives in Japan stemmed from workers’ response to the crisis of job destruction and loss of livelihood in the process of reducing unemployment measures by the Japanese government after the war. In this way, the Japanese worker cooperative movement, which began as a countermeasure against unemployment of middle-aged and elderly people, began in the past in environmental preservation work and warehouse management work in cooperation with local governments and cooperatives, and has recently started in the welfare field(care, childcare, youth, the disabled, and living poverty).
 Second, the characteristics of practice cases using worker coSecond, the characteristics of practices using worker cooperatives in Japan are ① flexibly combined with local self-governing organizations such as social welfare councils and neighborhood associations, and ② supplying services needed by the region within the framework of cooperative labor. At the same time, recently, it has been reproducing new values in the local community by performing various secondary functions beyond simple support. ③ Socialization of cooperative labor in the region through the promotion of cooperative labor platform projects led by local governments, as in the case of Hiroshima City discussed above. effort, etc.
 Third, measures to revitalize worker cooperatives with the enforcement of Japan’s ‘Labor Cooperative Act’ include ① revitalization of joint projects through federations, ② strengthening of government and local government-level actions and financial support to create an ecosystem for worker cooperatives, and ③ The strengthening of organic linkages between labor unions and cooperatives was suggested.