O processo de desenvolvimento do setor leiteiro cooperativista gaúcho (1976-1992): o modelo CCGL.

Abstract

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.