JOB

Human dignity is also to be found in work, in the sense of the ability to express and acquire participatory responsibility within the local social environment. On this principle, many considerations from the religious and humanistic sciences converge in attributing a significant social function to work.

For this reason, one of the most important preoccupations of a society that places man at the centre of its focus consists in avoiding as much as possible the existence of areas of social marginalisation.

The system, which inevitably includes some form of welfare system, must be considered as the final objective in terms of time, but as of top priority for its assessment, with the effective achievement of social integration through work.

To achieve concrete results, we need to judge the work of a municipal government not just in terms of its ability to maintain a controlled social situation, but to produce a virtuous shift from social marginalisation to full integration.

Social co-operation comes from the need of territories to create the conditions that reduce the exclusion of “weak” people.

The link between the social area of marginalisation and the jobs market can be typically found in the type of social co-operation that Law 381/91 identifies as type “B”.
The social value of this situation coincides with the ability to give back to “weak” subjects the dignity of work that, in the logic of welfare planning, means going beyond the income support that is typical of social welfare programmes, and creating instead fully fledged social integration courses.