South America
Venezuela - Symposium on the Social Economy
Submitted by emilykawano on Wed, 06/03/2009 - 4:15pmII SIMPOSIO INTERNACIONAL CIRIEC VENEZUELA
X SIMPOSIO NACIONAL DE ECONOMIA SOCIAL
“RELACIONES ESTADO-ORGANIZACIONES DE LA ECONOMÍA SOCIAL”
BARQUISIMETO, 5 AL 7 DE NOVIEMBRE 2009
El Centro Interdisciplinario de Investigación, Formación y Documentación de la Economía Cooperativa, Social y Pública (CIRIEC-Venezuela), la Universidad Centroccidental Lisandro Alvarado (UCLA), la Universidad de Los Andes (ULA) y CAYAPA, la Revista Venezolana de Economía Social, invitan a participar y presentar trabajos en el II Simposio Internacional CIRIEC Venezuela y X Simposio Nacional de Economía Social, a celebrarse en la Universidad Centroccidental Lisandro Alvarado (UCLA) en la ciudad de Barquisimeto, estado Lara, Venezuela, del 5 al 7 de noviembre de 2009.
Este es el primer llamado a presentar ponencias y carteles, según la justificación, objetivos y temario que se describen a continuación.
JUSTIFICACIÓN
Solidarity Economy in Brazil
Submitted by Administrator on Thu, 04/10/2008 - 2:05pmSugar Workers' Coop Supports 4,300 Families at 48 Mills
By Mario Osava
RIO DE JANEIRO, Jan 11 (IPS) - The Harmony Agricultural Company has become Brazil's largest worker-managed business in the solidarity economy. It provides employment for 4,300 families who work 26,000 hectares of land, and its main activity is producing sugar at 48 mills.
When the company was in crisis in 1993, the first reaction of the workers and their unions was the usual one of trying to ensure that the 2,300 workers who were dismissed received back pay and severance pay. But two years later, the unions took another approach.
Their goal was to win back the lost jobs and maintain the remaining ones, while continuing an activity essential to the economy of Catende, in the northeastern state of Pernambuco.
They applied for the owners of the company to be forced to declare bankruptcy, and took over the firm's administration, under the supervision of the justice system. Since then, they have resumed sugar production and diversified into other agricultural and industrial activities.
