Trabalhador empresário, empresário trabalhador - um cotidiano construído passo a passo: estudo crítico de uma organização produtiva sediada em Birigüi/SP

Abstract

The present research aims studying a model of productive organization - the so called communitary organization - located in Birigüi, a municipal district at the Norwest region of São Paulo State - seeking to ascertain in what extension it represent a novelty for generation of employ, work and income .in municipal districts of medium size. Such experience started in 1991, was inspired on the ideal of Basic Eclesial Communities CEBs) searching the concrete realization of the Christian utopia, worked by a group of twelve young workers of footwear sector in Birigüi. The leading question on our study may be seen as a search for elements which allow us to identify whether it's possible that the working class shall organize themselves under a capitalist system remaining nevertheless exempt of the more disturbing vices that plague the relation between capital / work. The objectives of the research were: (1) recovering the history of the groupe and of Marc'ellse one of the communitary industries; (2) comprehending and analyzing the particular elements of the object of the constitute our study, that is to say, the internal and external conditions allowing the construction of such experience; and (3) analyzing the communitary industries to find if they constitute an undertake for generation of employ, work and income. Our study revealed the different characteristics owned by this industry concerning the capitalist working organization, specially about internal production relation one side, they constitute hybrid identities, where the associates perform silultaneously the roles of entrepreneur, of executive and of a worker in the production line, establishing working relations of cooperation and solidarity. On the other hand, the industry joined the market game, assimilation the management elements connected to Total Quality, enlarging their operation field. Such experience of employ, work and income generation was made possible due to several specific factors - as the strong unity between the associates favored by their Christian experience, the regional standard of economical development and some characteristics of the footwear industry, among others - thus constituting a case located in a special context. Meanwhile, they present some potentialities and some characteristics that may be replicated or may inspire other similar investments