Finland: labour co-operatives as an innovative response to unemployment P. PÄT TINIEMI

In this chapter, we will focus mainly on the new co-operative social enterprises active in the field of work integration. We will thus only briefly mention the more traditional (in the Finnish context) social enterprises, such as workshops and sheltered workshops, which emerged in the country after the Second World War, in order to bring people affected by the war back to the labour market and to normal life.