Worker cooperatives: in what is the cooperative social relationship of activities specific when measured against the wage labor nexus ?

Cooperativas de producción: que especificidad de la relación social de actividad cooperativa con respecto a la relación salarial

Justine Ballon, Sylvain Celle (), Anne Fretel () and Delphine Vallade ()
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Justine Ballon: LADYSS - Laboratoire Dynamiques Sociales et Recomposition des Espaces - UP1 - Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne - UP8 - Université Paris 8 Vincennes-Saint-Denis - UPN - Université Paris Nanterre - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique - UPCité - Université Paris Cité, HEC Montréal - HEC Montréal
Sylvain Celle: COACTIS - COnception de l'ACTIon en Situation - UL2 - Université Lumière - Lyon 2 - UJM - Université Jean Monnet - Saint-Étienne, TRIANGLE - Triangle : action, discours, pensée politique et économique - ENS de Lyon - École normale supérieure de Lyon - Université de Lyon - UL2 - Université Lumière - Lyon 2 - IEP Lyon - Sciences Po Lyon - Institut d'études politiques de Lyon - Université de Lyon - UJM - Université Jean Monnet - Saint-Étienne - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique
Anne Fretel: LED - Laboratoire d'Economie Dionysien - UP8 - Université Paris 8 Vincennes-Saint-Denis, IRES - Institut de recherches économiques et sociales
Delphine Vallade: UMR ART-Dev - Acteurs, Ressources et Territoires dans le Développement - Cirad - Centre de Coopération Internationale en Recherche Agronomique pour le Développement - UPVM - Université Paul-Valéry - Montpellier 3 - UPVD - Université de Perpignan Via Domitia - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique - UM - Université de Montpellier

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Abstract: This article analyses worker cooperatives by questioning their capacity to produce a relatively autonomous and protective social relationship of activities for their members as compared to the dominant wage labor nexus. Drawing on regulationist works on the wage labor nexus and the social relationship of activities, we propose a reading based on the conceptualization of a specific "cooperative social relation of activities", based on the principle of double quality. This principle is characterized by four main components : (1) futurity ; (2) governance ; (3) work organization ; (4) income and mutualization. Through a historical reinterpretation and the highlighting of stylized facts, we consider the historical evolution of the "cooperative social relationship of activities" in worker cooperatives in France, in relation to the evolution of the wage labor nexus. Three main periods are identified : 1815–1910 with a "cooperative social relationship of activities" as an alternative to the emergence of the wage labor nexus ; 1910–1980 with its assimilation into the wage society ; and from the 1980s onwards with the return of an ideal bypassing wage subordination. From the perspective of this theoretical and historical approach to the "cooperative social relationship of activities", we discuss its capacity to produce forms of social protection and wage security within the enterprise in the face of an increasingly precarious wage labor nexus. Finally, we discuss the fact that democratic governance is supposedly not only a key element of differentiation of the "cooperative social relationship of activities", but also a condition for producing wage protection in the enterprise.

Keywords: Wage labor nexus; Worker cooperatives; Social protection; History of the cooperative movement; Membership; Relación salarial; Cooperativas de producción; Protección social; Historia del movimiento cooperativo; Efecto societal; Rapport salarial; Coopérative de production; Protection sociale; Mouvement coopératif; Sociétariat (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023-07-07
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Published in Revue de la régulation. Capitalisme, institutions, pouvoirs, 2023, Approches mésoéconomiques des coopératives, 2023 (34 | 1er semestre), ⟨10.4000/regulation.22351⟩

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DOI: 10.4000/regulation.22351

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