Work organization and social protection in Argentine cooperatives

Worker cooperatives in Argentina experienced an important boom at the beginning of the 21st century in response to the economic and social crises that affected the country. This situation entailed a restructuring of social and employment policies that emphasized work as a means of social inclusion. The aim of this article is to describe and characterize the type of labor insertion that worker cooperatives propose to their members in terms of income, formalization, benefits, and labor guarantees and the ways in which they organize production and time. The findings are presented of a descriptive study, based on the application of surveys and semi-structured interviews with members of 27 worker cooperatives in the Greater Santa Fe agglomerate, located in the Argentine pampas. The study, carried out between 2019 and 2020, recognizes the possibility of labor insertion offered by cooperatives to many people who have been excluded from the formal labor market and even of becoming a space for support, meeting, and training for members and associates. However, it describes nearly generalized situations of labor precariousness among people working in cooperatives, shaped by the lack of social protections and adequate economic regulation for associative and self-managed organizations.

• Autore principale: Massera, Maricel (author)
• Natura: article
• Lingua: spa
• Pubblicazione: 2024
• Soggetti: Argentina; cooperativa de trabalho; colocação profissional; organização do trabalho; proteção social; trabalhadores; cooperativa de trabajo; inserción laboral; organización del trabajo; protección social; personas trabajadoras; worker cooperative; labor insertion; labor organization; social protection; working people
• Accesso online: https://iconos.flacsoandes.edu.ec/index.php/iconos/article/view/6081