The self-manager work on the solidary economy: after all, what recovers and what changes these recovered companies?

Abstract

The advance of iniatives called Solidary Economy in Brazil reveals the increase of a complex and contradictory social movement, that has been earning a new space in society. The recovered companies represent a whole new chapter on this scenery, given the particularities of its stories, internal organization and the social actors envolved. Such iniatives rise in times of economical crisis, as ways of attenuation of unemployment. This article aims to present a bibliographic review over recovered companies, highlighting the challenges that are part of the self-manager work. It will be developed after 3 moments: 1) charachterization of the new configuration of the work worldwide and in Brazil, and its repercussion on the rising of the solidary movement; 2) analisys of context data about the Solidary Economy development in Brazil; 3) reflexion over the self-manager experience in recovered companies, focusing on the contextual and organizational specificities of those enterprises.