O novo cooperativismo: alternativa de trabalho e renda ou mais um caminho para a precariedade das relações de trabalho?

Abstract

In Brazil, mainly in 90’s, the economic liberalization process of the country, which was considered a possible solution for development and decrease of the so called Brazil’s risk, strengthened the informal sector which began to be well-seen and faced as a opportunity of occupation in times of structural unemployment. The solidarity economy emerges for trying to fight back against unemployment in its structural shapes, trying to insert reasoned practices in solidarity and equality among men, aiming to overcome the division between capital and work, implanting through self-maneged practices the setting of these precepts. Cooperatives existent in the world since industrial revolution which faced phases of intense intervention by the government rise again as the main column of Solidarity Economy and as a model of job offer, finance and instrument for social inclusion. Therewith, our objective is to study preferentially Cooperatives as a fundamental phenomenon of social economy. Finally, holding as a theoretical perspective the sociology of work and the labor law, we intend to analyze the legal implications of the associated cooperated, focusing in their rights as employees, considering it a citizen’s conquest. Would cooperatives be a effective weapon to solve the unemployment or with to many problems existent nowadays it is only another way of precarious labor relations?