Entre o Mercado e a Revolução

Dois estudos de caso de empresas recuperadas pelos trabalhadores no Brasil – Flaskô e Usina Catende

Abstract

Economic neoliberal policies, that have become hegemonic in the late twentieth century in much of Latin America, bankrupted several companies that could not compete in the new context. This process resulted in the emergence of a de-industrialization phenomenon in the productive structure of many countries, promoting mass unemployment and the degradation of the working class working conditions. In response to this scenario, searching for dignity and survival, workers groups constituted a new proposal for democratization of labor relations: the recovery of the bankrupt firms under workers’ control. This phenomenon is based on selfmanagement at its core – supported by social movements, these workers sought to organize in a counter-hegemonic way, proposing alternative forms of social relationship of production within the capitalist system, capable of surviving its rules and to lead new forms of emancipatory relations in their communities. This paper presents two case studies and an overview of the characteristics of the phenomenon of enterprises recovered by workers seeking to observe what they signal in terms of collective ownership of the means of production, the democratization of labor relations and how they relate to society.