 in the company, it necessarily have to be 

 Membership-based employment is closely associated with the 

, which once common practice of in Japan. It is an employment system that provides incentives for being a member of a company community throughout one's lifetime.

 It sounds a lot like cooperatives since they are also 

, we had something similar as well. It used to be called "

". The good bit about it is that workers also participated in directing.

 I am not sure about the details how it works in terms of corporations, but all other types of cooperatives in 

 require you to become a member with some type of participation in terms of capital or membership.

 In the case of Yugoslavia, the "lifetime membership/employment" was linked more with the fact that legally it was difficult to lay workers off, and that typically workers would never lay off workers (given that the decision-making in the company was shared among employees/collective members).

, but when I looked into it, I found it to be very interesting. Thank you for telling me about it!

nishio

> NISHIO Hirokazu (@nishio.bsky.social) [2024-02-11 11:21 https://bsky.app/profile/nishio.bsky.social/post/3kl4bdi2h632t]

> In order to store [knowledge capital] and [social-relationship capital] in the company, it necessarily have to be [membership-based employment] rather than [job-based]. Isn’t it?

> Membership-based employment is closely associated with the [lifetime employment], which once common practice of in Japan. It is an employment system that provides incentives for being a member of a company community throughout one's lifetime.

> It sounds a lot like cooperatives since they are also [membership based], such as the ones in [Basque] Country. In my country, [ex Yugoslavia], we had something similar as well. It used to be called "[organisation of joint labour]". The good bit about it is that workers also participated in directing.

> This might be of help: [Mondragon Corporation - Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mondragon_Corporation] I am not sure about the details how it works in terms of corporations, but all other types of cooperatives in [Spain] require you to become a member with some type of participation in terms of capital or membership.

> In the case of Yugoslavia, the "lifetime membership/employment" was linked more with the fact that legally it was difficult to lay workers off, and that typically workers would never lay off workers (given that the decision-making in the company was shared among employees/collective members).

> I didn't know much about the [Mondragon Cooperative Corporation], but when I looked into it, I found it to be very interesting. Thank you for telling me about it!

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