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Social Cooperative of Municipalities/Microregion as Tool to Solve Regional Needs and Handicapped Citizens Employement
MALÁSKOVÁ, Martina
My thesis is that ?Social cooperatives across communities can be used as a tool to better address regional economic needs and improve employment levels of disadvantaged citizens.? My hypothesis is that cooperation across communities creates more positive economic effects than simply individual participation within a single village. When individual villages join forces there is a greater probability of obtaining dotations from the EU Monetary Funds. The group of villages is also in a better negotiating position with other governmental departments and authorities than just negotiating on their own. This is extremely important since it is the individual villages and cities that suffer the most when they cannot address the economic issues of their disadvantaged citizens ? e.g. increasing crime levels, antisocial behavior and other negative aspects. If the individual villages join together in a social cooperative they will be in a better position to negotiate and thus collect benefits to better serve their disadvantaged community. Social cooperatives do exist today that are focused on addressing the needs of the disadvantaged. They work to offer employment positions (opportunities) to the disadvantaged citizens who then can provide certain types of services or products they produce back to the community. Unfortunately, these types of cooperatives do not exist within our micro region. Unlike abroad, this type of cooperatives does not exist in our country yet and therefore it was difficult to evaluate my theory in practice within the Czech Republic. As a result, I used micro region ZÁHORAN as an example to explore the reason why we do not have these social cooperatives.

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