Mondragon cooperatives have used flexible employment, training and labour protection policies to deal with economic crises since the 1970s. These policies were also used in 2013 to alleviate the social consequences of the demise of their biggest industrial cooperative, Fagor Electrodomésticos. This article aims to analyze—through 40 interviews with different stakeholders—the advantages and limitations of wage, working time and functional flexibility policies by framing them under the flexicurity concept. In contrast with previous research on Mondragon cooperatives, this study has found a strong worker-owner resistance to flexicurity policies, mainly before the firm's bankruptcy. The study has also found the main reasons for worker resistance and for some successful Mondragon cooperatives’ reluctance to offer permanent relocations to redundant Fagor Electrodomésticos’ members. This research will help cooperatives to maintain and improve their flexicurity policies and their resilience. Some findings can be extrapolated to the growing number of firms that aim to implement flexicurity policies without harming their workers’ social welfare.

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相互合作、灵活性及其对工人的影响：Fagor Electrodomésticos 的案例

Mondragon 合作社自 1970 年代以来一直采用灵活的就业、培训和劳动保护政策来应对经济危机。2013 年，这些政策也被用于减轻他们最大的工业合作社 Fagor Electrodomésticos 倒闭的社会后果。本文旨在通过对不同利益相关者的 40 次访谈，分析工资、工作时间和职能灵活性政策的优势和局限性，并将其置于弹性保障概念下。与之前对 Mondragon 合作社的研究相比，本研究发现，主要是在公司破产之前，工人-所有者对弹性担保政策有强烈的抵制。该研究还发现了工人抵制的主要原因，以及一些成功的蒙德拉贡合作社不愿为多余的 Fagor Electrodomésticos 成员提供永久搬迁的主要原因。这项研究将帮助合作社维持和改善其弹性政策和弹性。一些研究结果可以推断为越来越多的公司旨在实施弹性政策而不损害其工人的社会福利。