ABSTRACT
In Finland the trade unions have accepted the requirements of enterprises to regard investments as of primary importance and to accept state subsidies for enterprises. In the course of industrialisation a specific type of enterprise-community relation developed, with industrial communities around enterprises. This type of enterprise-community relation has played an important role in the socioeconomic development of communities and industrial culture as well as in allowing enterprises to realise their own modes of rationalisation. In the enterprise operations rationalisation of labour lay-offs, dismissals and closures of departments and individual production units are based on aspects related to business operations, and labour processes are subordinate to them. Internationalisation of production will create special pressures in the behaviour of enterprises. From the point of view of labour employment and work we can say that pressure towards rationalisation and assimilation brought about by the internationalisation process of production is only beginning in Finland.
