Social enterprises as place of work for people with disabilities – evidence from Poland
Date
2019-02-28
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Publisher
Видавництво Львівської політехніки
Lviv Politechnic Publishing House
Lviv Politechnic Publishing House
Abstract
Concern about people with disabilities
is now becoming one of the areas of interest within
the European Union, which is seeking a cost-effective
and socially acceptable solutions aimed at supporting
a worthy life of this group of society. Specific areas
of action aimed at improving conditions for social
inclusion, well-being and the full exercise of the
rights of people with disabilities are set out in the
“European Disability Strategy 2010–2020: A renewed
commitment to a Barrier-Free Europe” (European
Disability Strategy 2010–2020: COM (2010) 636).
Employment is one of those areas. In order to cope
with the professional activation of people with
disabilities the pattern of change should start from the
immediate environment and living space of disabled.
Increasing the number of employment opportunities
(e.g. in the form of homework), create and ease the
options for self-employment (e.g. social cooperatives).
Therefore, the aim of this article is to look at how
social enterprises act as labour market entities and
what are results of their activity in Poland. We try to
prove that social enterprises, i.e. social cooperatives
are important entity for the activation of people with
disabilities in the labour market by providing the
analysis of the activities of two subjects.
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Keywords
public management, social enterprise, European Disability Strategy, professional activation, disability
Citation
Frączkiewicz-Wronka A. Social enterprises as place of work for people with disabilities – evidence from Poland / A. Frączkiewicz-Wronka, M. Wronka-Pośpiech, R. Porc // Economics, Entrepreneurship, Management. — Lviv : Lviv Politechnic Publishing House, 2019. — Vol 6. — No 2. — P. 22–31.