Workers’ cooperatives as an instrument for the inclusion of people of mature age into the labour market

Abstract

The cooperative model can be especially appropriate to promote labour market inclusion for older workers. Under an overall reflection of this group at risk of social exclusion, this study analyses the possibilities of worker’s cooperatives in four main areas: 1) As a suitable channel for labour reincorporation of older unemployed people. 2) As an useful instrument in companies’ reconversion that could disappear due to various circumstances. 3) As enterprises concerned with the protection of older workers within the dynamics of cooperative work. 4) As entities sensitive to the care of older people within the silver economy. he result of this analisys is to ascertain the state of affairs and propose good practices from different sources that allow us to affirm that worker’s cooperatives are able to offer to older workers a wide range of possibilities to maintain their employment or undertake a business or productive activity. Received: 30 November 2021Accepted: 12 April 2022