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Grassi, Estela
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Spatial Coverage
Temporal Coverage
2003-2011
Idioma
spa
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396 p.
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Cobertura
ARG
2003-2011
Abstract
Since 2003 has began in Argentina a transformation process of the economic, labor and social policies whose explicit goal is to promote "social inclusion" through work. In this context, the creation and support of associative and self-managed work under the Social Economy was assumed as a central strategy of social policy, intended to unemployed and/or vulnerable people. The development of new socio-productive programs responded and recovered diverse experiences deployed by different groups and social movements to face their needs and challenge the unemployment and the lack of incomes.
In this context, the objective of this thesis is to analyze how work units promoted by Social Economy policies, implemented in Argentina between 2003 and 2011, made the intended aim of social and economic integration of the populations they are target.
The stated purpose requires a comprehensive approach that integrates three levels of analysis, social policy, which investigates the role and importance of promoting these work forms in the socioeconomic strategy in Argentina and analyzes the scope and limitations of these programs. The level of economic units, which describes and analyzes the socioeconomic and productive characteristics of the labor forms promoted by these policies and how they are linked to the state, the market and other experiences of Social Economy and the level of social practices, that explores how individuals relate to social policy and self-managed work and the senses that they attribute to them or produced in these experiences. This level also analyzes the socio-politic participation in these associative and self-managed work units.
The hypothesis of this research is that the strategy of "social inclusion" through associative and self-managed work, finds its limits because its approach fails to overcome the traditional sense of social policy that is the social assistance to poor and unemployed people. Therefore, although discursively the national government awards a significant role to the generation of these new ways of working, these policies are developed outside an adequate legal framework and an efficient regulation of the work and commercial conditions of the producers. This situation restricts the possibilities for social and economic recognition, in equality with other working population, but at the same time, the nature and scope of such participation, depends on the sociopolitical and organizational experiences of each associative group.
To think about the problem of social integration forms promoted by the socio-productive policies, we distinguish analytically four dimensions. The economic dimension refers to the production mode and employment regime prevailing in the society and the possibility of economic units promoted by these policies to become feasible alternative jobs. At the level of the associative experiences, it refers to the ability to generate resources for its reproduction and the expansion. The political dimension, linked to the institutionalization of associative and self-managed work and the regulations that set the conditions that make possible or obstruct the development of the Social Economy in Argentina. In this process we also consider the sociopolitical participation forms that are developed in these labor experiences. The cultural dimension refers to the symbolic contents and the meanings that agents attribute to or produce in their work experiences. The social dimension refers to the construction of social ties and relations of sociability among social groups.
In terms of methodology, we use a plural approach that articulates the comprehensive analysis of the regulations governing the programs and actions to promote the Social Economy and various documents produced by state agencies, with information gathered from interviews with recipients and employees of government agencies involved in the implementation of socio-productive programs and from participant observations in cooperatives and projects supported by them. The thesis is divided in four chapters. The first draw up a synthesis of our theoretical approach and develop the main concepts from which we think the problem under study. In the second, we make a socio-historical contextualization of the associative and self-managed work promotion in Argentina since 2003, to explore their role and importance in the socioeconomic strategy during the studied period. Chapter 3 explores the potentials and limitations of promoting these forms of work, from the analysis of the implementation process of the lines of the Plan “Manos a la Obra” (subsidies, microcredit and the Program “Argentina Trabaja”) and the Self-managed Work Program. In Chapter 4, we describe and analyze the association experiences and the identities construction taking place in the framework of the economic units promoted by the socioproductive policies. Finally, we present the conclusions of the investigation.
In this context, the objective of this thesis is to analyze how work units promoted by Social Economy policies, implemented in Argentina between 2003 and 2011, made the intended aim of social and economic integration of the populations they are target.
The stated purpose requires a comprehensive approach that integrates three levels of analysis, social policy, which investigates the role and importance of promoting these work forms in the socioeconomic strategy in Argentina and analyzes the scope and limitations of these programs. The level of economic units, which describes and analyzes the socioeconomic and productive characteristics of the labor forms promoted by these policies and how they are linked to the state, the market and other experiences of Social Economy and the level of social practices, that explores how individuals relate to social policy and self-managed work and the senses that they attribute to them or produced in these experiences. This level also analyzes the socio-politic participation in these associative and self-managed work units.
The hypothesis of this research is that the strategy of "social inclusion" through associative and self-managed work, finds its limits because its approach fails to overcome the traditional sense of social policy that is the social assistance to poor and unemployed people. Therefore, although discursively the national government awards a significant role to the generation of these new ways of working, these policies are developed outside an adequate legal framework and an efficient regulation of the work and commercial conditions of the producers. This situation restricts the possibilities for social and economic recognition, in equality with other working population, but at the same time, the nature and scope of such participation, depends on the sociopolitical and organizational experiences of each associative group.
To think about the problem of social integration forms promoted by the socio-productive policies, we distinguish analytically four dimensions. The economic dimension refers to the production mode and employment regime prevailing in the society and the possibility of economic units promoted by these policies to become feasible alternative jobs. At the level of the associative experiences, it refers to the ability to generate resources for its reproduction and the expansion. The political dimension, linked to the institutionalization of associative and self-managed work and the regulations that set the conditions that make possible or obstruct the development of the Social Economy in Argentina. In this process we also consider the sociopolitical participation forms that are developed in these labor experiences. The cultural dimension refers to the symbolic contents and the meanings that agents attribute to or produce in their work experiences. The social dimension refers to the construction of social ties and relations of sociability among social groups.
In terms of methodology, we use a plural approach that articulates the comprehensive analysis of the regulations governing the programs and actions to promote the Social Economy and various documents produced by state agencies, with information gathered from interviews with recipients and employees of government agencies involved in the implementation of socio-productive programs and from participant observations in cooperatives and projects supported by them. The thesis is divided in four chapters. The first draw up a synthesis of our theoretical approach and develop the main concepts from which we think the problem under study. In the second, we make a socio-historical contextualization of the associative and self-managed work promotion in Argentina since 2003, to explore their role and importance in the socioeconomic strategy during the studied period. Chapter 3 explores the potentials and limitations of promoting these forms of work, from the analysis of the implementation process of the lines of the Plan “Manos a la Obra” (subsidies, microcredit and the Program “Argentina Trabaja”) and the Self-managed Work Program. In Chapter 4, we describe and analyze the association experiences and the identities construction taking place in the framework of the economic units promoted by the socioproductive policies. Finally, we present the conclusions of the investigation.
Título obtenido
Doctora de la Universidad de Buenos Aires en Ciencias Sociales
Institución otorgante
Universidad de Buenos Aires. Facultad de Ciencias Sociales