A qualidade de vida no trabalho na fronteira entre autogestão e heterogestão: um estudo de caso qualitativo na cooperativa Cotravic

Abstract

The phenomenon of solidarity economy in Brazil has expanded in response to unemployment and social exclusion. It consists of solidarity economic enterprises which have the purpose of generating employment and income for those workers who, at a given moment, were shut out of the formal labor market, as in the situation of bankrupt estates of private companies. In this context, cooperative associations are regarded as the typical form of economic solidarity enterprises, based on assumptions of equal participation in the management and collective ownership of the means of production by its members, through practices of self-management. But the literature of the solidarity economy admits that this type of management does not constitute the only form of management present within the cooperative, that is, at these cooperatives also occur hetero-management practices arising from market society governed under the foundations of neoliberal capitalism. The coexistence of these management patterns implies in antagonistic paradoxical practices, which in turn are reflected in the quality of work life of members. Thus, this thesis is aimed at understanding how the paradox between hetero and self-management is reflected in the quality of work life perceived by a cooperative of cooperatives survey arising from the bankruptcy estate. For this purpose, a exploratoryinterpretive was conducted, through qualitative case study on cooperative Cotravic, using as instruments mainly spontaneous interviews and semi-structured interviews and field observation, proceeding to an analysis of the outcome. The results confirmed the existence of the self versus hetero management paradox and mainly in management practices relating to: organization of instances of decision-making, democratic participation of members and remuneration for work performed, resulting in improving the quality of life at work perceived by the cooperative Cotravic members, revealing oscillations regarding satisfaction with the quality of work life in terms of and self-managed hetero-managed standards. The conclusion of the study points to the importance of the paradox between self versus hetero management embedded in management practices of the Cooperative for reflecting on the quality of work life perceived by members. In this sense, the present study proposes a management paradox conception of complementarity in which ambiguity can be leveraged in support of the productive efficiency of the cooperative and the welfare of their individual and collective members.

A sentinela sob a sombra das árvores: uma revisão integrativa da segurança do trabalho no setor florestal brasileiro

“…Para além disso, a região também abriga os estados brasileiros que apresentam as maiores relações proporcionais entre estimativa de cobertura florestal nativa e área total, a saber: Amazonas (91,71%), Acre (86,57%) e Amapá (78,87%), respectivamente (IBGE, 2020). Do mesmo modo, cabe ainda destacar a ínfima produção científica sobre a segurança do trabalho no setor florestal realizada na zona conhecida como Matopiba -acrônimo criado com a junção das siglas dos estados do Maranhão, Tocantins, Piauí e Bahia -, que dá nome a uma área geoeconômica com mais de 73 milhões de hectares, que abrange o território do Tocantins e uma parte dos outros três estados da região Nordeste do Brasil, sendo apontada como uma das últimas fronteiras agrícolas do País (Lumbreras et al, 2015;Mathias, 2017;Pereira, 2019;Ribeiro et al, 2020). Ademais, a Bahia, o Piauí e o Maranhão, durante o período de 2000 a 2018, responderam por 91,74% da expansão das áreas agrícolas do Nordeste (IBGE, 2020).…”