A protocol for the factories of Ford
• by Corriere della Sera on 19 October 2007, p.. 1
of Maurizio Ferrera
Scholars call it "Lego model." It 'a new type of welfare in some countries is supplanting the old "Ford Model', made increasingly obsolete by changes in the economy and society.
The model is organized around the large Ford factory and focuses on the worker (male); its main goal is to not subsidize the work through grants and pensions. The Lego model is rather oriented towards society as a whole in the center and inept individuals, especially women and children.
Its objective is to support the needs of the entire life cycle, paying particular attention to the phase of early childhood. Inspired by the philosophy of the famous Danish toy (the building blocks for the 'creative'), the model assigns a key role Lego wings' learning, training, updating skills as tools for growth and security at the individual level and collectively. Per il modello Ford la giustizia sociale è essenzialmente una questione di «compensazioni» tra classi e categorie occupazionali e l'arena decisiva è il mercato del lavoro. Per il modello Lego la battaglia per l'equità e l'eguaglianza di opportunità deve cominciare molto prima: le arene decisive sono la famiglia, i servizi per l'infanzia, la scuola.
11 modello Lego non è solo un'idea astratta degli studiosi. E' un approccio che vari governi europei seguono già da tempo. I Paesi scandinavi investono per i servizi per l'infanzia, la scuola e la formazione più di quanto spendono per le pensioni. Nell'ultimo decennio la Gran Bretagna e l'Irlanda hanno significativamente recalibrated their welfare systems to women and children, and Zapatero in Spain now follows their example. The new approach is inspiring social reform also some central and eastern European countries such as Estonia or Slovenia. Italy, however, is lagging behind.
In the program there were several tracks of the Union Lego model, especially in the chapter on the rights of the person and the family and what about the school. During the election campaign of 2006, many politicians now in government had often repeated the slogan "first the women and children," making it almost a flag. There was talk about baby bond, a hundred thousand new jobs in the nurseries, supports universal alle famiglie con figli. Nel maggio scorso, al convegno di Firenze organizzato da Rosy Bindi, vari ministri avevano annunciato misure per sostenere il lavoro delle madri, per contrastare la povertà dei minori, per realizzare condizioni di maggiore eguaglianza «ai nastri di partenza». Persino Rifondazione comunista si era data una mossa, presentando in Parlamento un disegno di legge per l'istituzione di un «reddito minimo di cittadinanza per i bambini e le bambine», pari a 250 euro mensili. Nessuno si aspettava certo una piena conversione del governo Prodi al nuovo approccio. Ma qualche mattoncino Lego, questo sì, eravamo stati così ingenui da aspettarcelo.
But no. Under the Protocol on welfare, we have witnessed a real comeback in full regalia of the old Ford model: the centerpiece of the bill just passed by the government of new pensions, the overall logic is still that of compensation for women and is reserved for children only a few words distracted, some vague promise. Rifondazione is back to claim "compensation" and "refunds." The Budget has added a nice icing on the other hand compensates for her relief, there will be less money for child-care facilities.
Really there was no room to do otherwise? The political resistance and trade unions were very strong, no one denies. Negotiation was difficult, the chapter on social safety nets is however a positive result. But some concrete measure towards the Lego model could (and still can) launch. To give a signal of change, to start some virtuous circle. But most of all to help that about one million of Italian children under ten years living in poverty and social exclusion and economic model that Ford insists, blatantly and shamefully, to ignore.
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