So far there have been three contributions to our
working group, commenting the "launching of the discussion"
text
The 1st by Hugues Puel co-facilitator
of the group - who expresses his general agreement with my proposal
of structuring the debate. Additionally he refers to some of his
publications related with this topic and expresses his scepticism
with the basic income debate.
The 2nd by Jean Clement stresses
the importance to discuss on participation of workers in the decision-making
processes in the companies they work or even in their capital -
the role of the shareholding workers. I agree very much with the
importance of this topic and my intention is to include debates
on ethic of the future enterprises and on experiences of social
economy, especially the experience of the Mondragon-Cooperative.
In the 3rd contribution by Pierre
Caro declares his general agreement with the proposed structure.
He stresses the importance of labour as powerful mechanism for social
organisation in the past and present and seems to be sceptical about
the need of alternative or complementary mechanisms. I think, this
will really be the crucial point of our common debate. For the future,
can we still rely on labour as the unique mechanism for social organisation
or would this mean to overload it and do we -consequently- have
to reflect on others?
I thank those three colleagues
for their contributions and would like to stimulate the rest of
you to contribute as well. I realized that there are quite a lot
of participants who are registered but so far did not introduce
themselves via e-mail. I would like to ask them to do so as soon
as possible.
Thanks for your attention and please come up with
your proposals.