A organização da associação de catadores de lixo do município de Sumé-PB: existe um modelo de gestão?

Abstract

The association of the phenomenon, the organization of people around well-defined purposes, and assumptions of Solidarity Economy, are considered as a kind of resurrection of values that are part of the labor movement culture, such as solidarity, self-management, autonomy, mutualism, moral economy, among others; we have around the pillars for the construction of a public policy which this north associations anchored on values such as sustainability and solidarity. Importantly, although not what we seek in this paper, the realization that Solidarity Economy and Self-management are terms that are related. a common factor of the working year is the ability to secure income and the livelihood of many people. However, if on the one hand the occupation ensures a stable, on the other, these workers work without employment, without social rights, earn, in most cases, less than a minimum wage dispute recyclable materials with their peers and face operation of the recycling industry. Given the above, we established the general objective: to understand how the organization of work in the association of garbage collectors in the city of Sumé / PB. We propose the following objectives: understanding what the understanding of management of garbage collectors that are associated; understand how they perceive the association. This work can be classified as a descriptive nature of the study, and presents qualitative characteristics, by analyzing the organizational model of collectors association. As to the evaluation we make of the organizational form of the work of collectors, again emphasize that there is no model of management, there is no division of labor among the associate members, there is some planning of activities and so little was remarkable that there is complete union between members collectors, for all who work at the site and are association members work in competitive regime.