Novos espaços produtivos e novas-velhas formas de organização do trabalho: As experiências com cooperativas de trabalho no nordeste brasileiro

• Main Author: Jacob Carlos Lima
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Centro de Estudos Sociais da Universidade de Coimbra 2005-12-01
• Series: Revista Crítica de Ciências Sociais
• Subjects: organization of work; Brazil; Brazilian Northeast; industrialization; cooperatives; industrial policy
• Online Access: http://journals.openedition.org/rccs/958

This article analyzes the new industrialization of the Brazilian Northeast, resulting from policies of industrial attraction from the 1990s, and characterized by fiscal incentives to labor-intensive industries, such as footwear and clothing, and by inducing the organization of worker cooperatives to outsource production and reduce labor costs. This process was more significant in the state of Ceará. Cooperatives were set up in the interior of the state, where there was an abundant and cheap supply of labor, no other employment options, and non-existent union activity. This process took place in a context of economic restructuring and neoliberal political changes in the Brazilian State, marked by the opening of the internal market to exports, the denationalization of production sectors, industrial relocation and technological modernization.