Social economy and the recovery of work in Uruguay
Abstract
Faced to the cyclical crises of capital and the high unemployment that these provoke, which are the strategies that workers deploy from the social economy as a form of resistance? The article will analyze the multiple case of Companies Recovered by their Workers (ERT) in Uruguay, experiences taken as current empirical microfields from which, in the quest to resist unemployment, new collective practices are created to guarantee livelihoods and reproduction of workers' lives. In order to understand the possible relational transformations that are experienced in the ERT, a qualitative approach is proposed to analyze the following dimensions: management, coordination, division of labor, distribution of the wealth and relations of internal exploitation and domination within the enterprises. In order to obtain information and build the data, on the one hand, a survey were retrieved from 43 of the 50 ERT surveyed and on the other hand, 40 semi-structured interviews were carried out on 40 of these ventures.
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