MACAGNAN, R.; MACAGNAN, Roberto.
Resumo:
This dissertation studies the process of the Cooperative Milk
Sector of State of Rio Grande do Sul, from 1976 to 1992, based on the
CCGL (Cooperativa Central Gaucha de Leite Ltda) model. It identifies
and interprets the main elements which determined the organization and
development of the model proposed by the wheat and soy bean
cooperatives, trying to get an alternative income for their members.
I work with two hypotheses. The first one affirms that the
cooperative milk sector development, in Rio Grande do Sul, was a
specific process of accumulation, concentration and centralization of
capital. The second hypothesis is that the organization, reproduction
and development of the CCGL model caused different processes of
development, in which some producers and cooperatives increased and
made possible the milk production, turning it into a profiable
alternative, while others abandoned the production.
In the first part, chapters I and I I , some specifications of the
model are studied. In chapter I, some theoretical and historical aspects
of the CCGL model are ^identified: cooperativism, its specifications and
limitations, and the genesis of the model from the wheat and soy bean
cooperative perspective. In chapter II, I characterize the milk
agroindustrial complex as an action space for the CCGL model.
The second part of this dissertation, chapters III, IV, V e VI,
presents the principal elements of the model constitution and
development. Chapter III deals with the articulation and functioning of
the model based on the historical facts which have contributed for its
creation and further implementation.
Chapter IV analyses the CCGL as the company which articulates
the model. Chapter V studies the aspects related to the cooperatives
linked to the CCGL from the point of view of the roles they take in
the pursuit of the model reproduction and its results, and chapter VI
broaches the development of milk producers who' participate in the
model as its reproducers.
This study brings up the main elements which contributed to the
understanding of the organization and the development of the model as
a whole and its three participant agents: the CCGL, the particular
cooperatives and the producers. Moreover, it demonstrates the two
hypotheses, identifying the main elements which contributed to the
process of accumulation, centralization and concentration of capital
througth the CCGL, as the articulator of the model.
