THE POSSIBILITY TO BUILD UP THE ECONOMIC BASE OF LABOUR : CASE STUDIES OF THE SOCIAL LAB. OF LABOUR BANK,THE VILLAGE OF FRIENDLY WORKERS SOCIETY, MUANG PHET AGRICULTURIST RESTORE PUBLIC COMPANY LIMITED
Abstract:
The objectives of this thesis are the possibility of increasing the workersquality of lives those are employees and poor farmers to make bargaining power by means of building up the economic base for higher income and welfare. This also will leads to the improvement of income distribution.The Methodology of this thesis is Participator Action Research-PAR by making social lab that includes Labour Bank, The village of friendly worker society, and Muang Phet Agriculturist Restore Public Company Limited. The theoretical frame works are Collective Capital Formation, Social Enterprise, together with base and superstructure concept of Karl Marx.The finding of this thesis show that the key factor of economic base of workers and farmers are the ownership on means of production.Especially, the distribution of capital ownership to workers.The possibility of making an economic base drawn from three case studies is friendship, trust, then bringing about saving and collective capital formation. Hence, it has brought about Labour Bank, the institution of a money capital. This then leads to the investment for production and trading of mass members. Inculding, the setting of 2 social enterprises those are the village of friendly worker society which is the economic base for employees under the concept of one family with two productions and Muang Phet Agriculturist Restore Public Company Limited which is the economic base for farmers. The business of the mass members leads to common property on other factors of production such as land machines and equipment, in which generating income for elevation of economic base in the forms of wage and non-wage and profit to the members accompany with increasing for bargaining power.Nonetheless, the all 3 social lab. are the beginning projects. Although, there are principle and operation in according with collective capital formation and social enterprise but it needs also the other factors to improve the making militant business of the mass under capitalisms competition. Especially, quality of personnel, technology, ideas and understanding coupled with members participation