Cooperativismo e economia solidária: diagnóstico de práticas na cooperativa de produção artesanal do Cuiuiú.

Abstract

The population of the community o f Cuiuiú, municipality o f Barra de Santa Rosa, Paraíba, is becoming more and more deserted, due to severa! existing conditions, mainly due to the scarcity of rainfall. Because o f this, many young people leave their homes and seek out large urban centers to try a better life, a job and thus be able to help parents and family. This research aims to diagnose cooperative and solidarity economy practices in the Cooperativa Centro Artesanal Cuiuiú knowing the whole trajectory and development o f the same through an analysis ofthe characteristics ofthe cooperative and their daily practices in the cooperative exploring the challenges encountered and the success achieved with the Production of artifacts with sisal ropes. The work makes mention of the need to generate income in the locality, an income that is eamed in an egalitarian, just and without exploiting each other, without wanting to take advantage without destroying the environment. Cooperating, strengthening the group, each thinking for the good of ali and for the good. We will try to explain a brief history of the cooperative, emphasizing points that are necessary for its development, such as the Solidarity Economy and Cooperativism. The results o f the research done with the members o f the cooperative and through the interview with the president o f the cooperative, will be exposed, linking the infonnation for the development and conclusion of this work. The contribution that this work sought to offer is that solidarity economy and cooperativism are practiced in many informal enterprises in an implicit way, where the great part of the people that make up certain associations or cooperatives do not have in mind the definition of Solidary Economy, but that they use Ali the practices and principies of it. The daily practices of the cooperative are similar to practices of solidarity economy and cooperativism and we can perceive through how they make the divisions of work, the confections and the packaging to send the products for sale, according to what was answered in the applied questionnaires.