One of the more striking effects of the COVID-19 pandemic has been the worsening of inequalities, especially for already vulnerable people. This is the case for people with disability who came into the COVID-19 crisis al-ready facing significant exclusion from employment. Based on a single case study research project concerning an Italian province, the current paper highlights the role which social cooperatives played in mitigating the nega-tive effects of the pandemic on the work inclusion of people with disability during the most acute phase of the COVID-19 crisis in 2020. By triangulat-ing multiple sources of evidence (both qualitative and quantitative), the study identifies local embeddedness and organisational hybridity as the most relevant properties that allowed cooperatives to play that role. This result confirms social cooperatives as fundamental actors for social in-novation and primary partners for public administration within a plural wel-fare system.

The Role of Social Cooperatives in the Work Inclusion of People with Disability During the COVID-19 Crisis: A Case from Italy

Walter Castelnovo
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Giuseppe Aquino;Paola Consonni;
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Abstract

One of the more striking effects of the COVID-19 pandemic has been the worsening of inequalities, especially for already vulnerable people. This is the case for people with disability who came into the COVID-19 crisis al-ready facing significant exclusion from employment. Based on a single case study research project concerning an Italian province, the current paper highlights the role which social cooperatives played in mitigating the nega-tive effects of the pandemic on the work inclusion of people with disability during the most acute phase of the COVID-19 crisis in 2020. By triangulat-ing multiple sources of evidence (both qualitative and quantitative), the study identifies local embeddedness and organisational hybridity as the most relevant properties that allowed cooperatives to play that role. This result confirms social cooperatives as fundamental actors for social in-novation and primary partners for public administration within a plural wel-fare system.
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Springer
978-3-031-52879-8
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