Young/new workers in communism

[jake williams]

In a communist/anarcho-synicalist/etc. society, what would be the analogous process to "applying for a job" be? I know I'm not phrasing the question well, but hopefully you can sort of get what I'm asking.

[jake williams]

Maybe I can ask another way. Presently "getting a job" consists of either having a friend who is an employer, or finding one you don't know and convincing them you're obedient and bland and profitable. How would this look, if, say, a kind of labour union or an informal group of workers collectively owned a workplace?

[Yehuda Stern]

I don't think communism would mean a union or a group of workers owning their workplace. I think it means that all production is run socially, collectively. In this sense, new laborers will be supplied to workplaces on base of need and on base of their preferred workplace.

[ernie]

In a communist/anarcho-synicalist/etc. society, what would be the analogous process to "applying for a job" be? I know I'm not phrasing the question well, but hopefully you can sort of get what I'm asking.
Interesting question. It's hard to say at any level of detail, but I would imagine that it would be much simpler than it is now.. A very simple way is the following.

Say you are a programmer and want to apply for a job at some software collective. You would contact the collective and fill out some sort of short application, and they would somehow decide to let you work with them or not. Perhaps all applicants would be accepted in some sort of trial mode and, if things worked out, you could become a part of that collective. If not, you could try somewhere else.

Collectives have an incentive to keep the best workers, since prestige and reputation will be so important in a communist society. People will want to be known for being the best at what they do. This way, talent will be the only criterion for selecting candidates. This is a big advantage over how it works now, where connections and ass-kissing abilities can matter more than real talent.

The details get hairy, but I don't expect the final solution to be a lot more complex than this. What do you think?