The Social and Solidarity Economy in Latin America

The Social and Solidarity Economy in Latin America
Author: Pablo Baisotti
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Total Pages: 293
Release: 2021-06-14
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1527571092

This book explores the Social and Solidarity Economy (SSE) in Latin America. It highlights the challenges and possibilities for the countries of this region, and analyzes the evolution of the Social Economy’s processes in order to ascertain its implications and social dimensions. The text also deals with solidarity alternatives in the capital market and the emergencies that occur in order to humanize the capitalist system.

Story of social economy in the Basque Country.

Story of social economy in the Basque Country.
Author: Aitor Bengoetxea Alkorta
Publisher: Dykinson
Total Pages: 310
Release: 2021-11-16
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 8413779375

This work studies and analyses the reality of the different families that shape the Social Economy in the Basque Country: Cooperatives, Labour Companies, Special Employment Centers, Work Integration Social Enterprises, Fishermen’s Guilds, Agricultural Transformation Societies, Mutual Societies, Associations, and Foundations. An aggregate study of the Social Economy in the Basque Country is also carried out and a reference to the Solidarity Economy is made.For each of them, its specific legal structure is analyzed, updated socio-economic data is provided, their associative structure is described, and the driving notions that characterize them and their challenges as a family of the Social Economy are discussed.The work has been carried out with the sponsorship of the Social Economy Directorate of the Department of Labour and Employment of the Basque Government, the joint work of the Basque Universities: University of the Basque Country, University of Deusto and the Mondragon University. It has also counted on the collaboration of each of the entities representing the Social Economy sector in the Basque Country.

An Alternative Labour History

An Alternative Labour History
Author: Assistant Professor Dario Azzellini
Publisher: Zed Books Ltd.
Total Pages: 401
Release: 2015-03-12
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1783601574

The global financial crisis has led to a new shop-floor militancy. Radical forms of protest and new workers’ takeovers have sprung up all over the globe. In the US, Republic Windows and Doors started production under worker control in January 2013. Later that year workers in Greece took over and managed a hotel, a hospital, a newspaper, a TV channel and a factory. The dominant revolutionary left has viewed workers' control as part of a system necessary during a transition to socialism. Yet most socialist and communist parties have neglected to promote workers' control as it challenges the centrality of parties and it is in this spirit that trade unions, operating through the institutional frameworks of government, have held a monopoly over labor history. Tracing Marx’s writings on the Paris Commune through council communism, anarcho-syndicalism, Italian operaismo, and other "heretical" left currents, An Alternative Labour History uncovers the practices and intentions of historical and contemporary autonomous workers’ movements that until now have been largely obscured. It shows that by bringing permanence and predictability to their workplaces, workers can stabilize their communities through expressions of participatory democracy. And, as history has repeatedly shown, workers have always had the capacity to run their enterprises on their own.

Social Innovation in Latin America

Social Innovation in Latin America
Author: Sara Calvo
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 202
Release: 2021-03-08
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1000357090

The Latin American continent contains an incredibly rich diversity from which humans derive a range of ecosystem services (e.g. material goods, cultural benefits, climate regulation, etc.) that contribute to livelihoods and well-being. It has become critical to reconcile social and environmental issues in the region to ensure that development is sustainable and aligned with the Sustainable Development Goals. To ensure the sustainable use and management of social and natural capital in the region, business, government, social enterprises and NGOs are engaging in different forms of social innovation that account for social, ecological and environmental values. This requires the integration of social and natural capital into decision-making at all levels. Latin America presents a useful scenario to explore social innovation in relation to social and environmental values and the management of local human and natural resources. This book presents social innovation initiatives that incorporate social and natural capital into decision-making processes in Latin America. This book aims to provide the reader with an insight into the relevance of social innovation for maintaining and restoring social and natural capital in Latin America. Using case studies from Ecuador, Colombia, Peru, Chile and Mexico, this book provides an insight into the interactions between social innovation and social and natural capital in Latin America and will be of interest to researchers, academics and students in the fields of social innovation, management studies, environmental economics and sustainability.

COLETåNEA GEPOS

COLETåNEA GEPOS
Author: Iraildes Caldas Torres
Publisher: Lulu.com
Total Pages: 258
Release: 2017-01-09
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1365615065

A existência da mulher indígena na mitologia é um caso labirintado que nem sempre nos deixa tirar conclusão lógica. Esta peremptória afirmativa nos permite inferir que, em se tratando da mulher sateré-mawé, só é possível conhecermos o seu valor dentro da etnia se localizarmos a inscrita capaz de nos levar até o rastro onde se firma o ethos feminino. Tecer fina tessitura sobre o ethos da mulher sateré-mawé supõe recompor o conjunto de valores arquetípicos que vicejam no dorso do contemporâneo e que pulsam nas veias da tradição, como um escuro potencialmente capaz de ver a luz.

Theorizing Cohesive Development

Theorizing Cohesive Development
Author: Sunil Ray
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 240
Release: 2020-05-07
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1000072681

This volume proposes an alternative development paradigm to the existing capitalist extant one, and studies how it is distinctly different from the older system. Rooted in the principles of solidarity between humans, as well as between humans and nature, this alternative paradigm replaces the methodological individualism of capitalism by ‘reciprocal altruism’, a new logic of capital, to give pace and direction to the development process. The essays in this volume highlight instances of various forms of solidarity that have emerged in the contemporary world—such as resistance movements of informal workers, the formation of an autonomous cooperative of self-employed waste pickers in India, called SWaCH, and Brazil and Cuba’s experiments with Social and Solidarity Economy (SSE)—to achieve long sustaining cohesive development. They also provide recommendations as to how the State can mold its development process to the benefit of marginalized communities, especially in India and Bangladesh. Featuring insights from leading experts in the field, Theorizing Cohesive Development will be an indispensable read for students and researchers of development studies, economics, political economy, political science and sociology, minority studies and Asian studies.

Social and Solidarity Economy

Social and Solidarity Economy
Author: Peter Utting
Publisher: Zed Books Ltd.
Total Pages: 376
Release: 2015-04-09
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 178360347X

As economic crises, growing inequality and climate change prompt a global debate on the meaning and trajectory of development, increasing attention is focusing on 'social and solidarity economy' as a distinctive approach to sustainable and rights-based development. While we are beginning to understand what social and solidarity economy is, what it promises and how it differs from 'business as usual', we know far less about whether it can really move beyond its fringe status in many countries and regions. Under what conditions can social and solidarity economy scale up and scale out - that is, expand in terms of the growth of social and solidarity economy organizations and enterprises, or spread horizontally within given territories? Bringing together leading researchers, blending theoretical and empirical analysis, and drawing on experiences and case studies from multiple countries and regions, this volume addresses these questions. In so doing, it aims to inform a broad constituency of development actors, including scholars, practitioners, activists and policy makers.

Social Alternatives in Southern Europe and Latin America

Social Alternatives in Southern Europe and Latin America
Author: Montserrat Duch-Plana
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 252
Release: 2024-03-19
Genre: History
ISBN: 1040000290

This book deals with the evolution of initiatives connected to the social and solidarity economy and their political cultures and educational implications in the south of Europe and in Latin America. Employing a comparative perspective, the contributors present 11 studies of these trajectories in Argentina, Chile, Portugal, France, Italy, Spain, and Catalonia in order to engender familiarity with social tributary practices and projects in the Latin world. As the cyclical crises of capitalism and their resulting inequalities have created proposals of reform and brought them into action, certain shared ideological influences and policies have emerged across these societies. Faced with the interpretative schemes used for the Anglo-Saxon sphere, which have been the usual reference in international research, this volume’s geographical and cultural matrix of analysis helps fill a longstanding gap in this field. The book will be of interest to scholars, educators, and students specialising in the history and political science of the social and solidarity economy sectors, as well as professionals involved in cooperatives, mutual aid societies, and associations.

Women, Development, and Labor of Reproduction

Women, Development, and Labor of Reproduction
Author: Mariarosa Dalla Costa
Publisher: Africa World Press
Total Pages: 212
Release: 1999
Genre: Feminism
ISBN: 9780865436220

A follow up to Paying the Price, this volume of essays represents an international, feminist, and non-capitalistic approach to the critical subject of reproductive politics.