The solidary economy in the fight to reverse poverty

Authors

  • Luiz Inácio Gaiger Universidade do Vale do Rio dos Sinos

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.7458/SPP2015793556

Abstract

This article presents and discusses evidence that solidary economic undertakings should be considered a possible alternative for generating income, fighting poverty and undoing the logic underlying inequalities, inasmuch as they promote protagonism on the part of the poor, seek efficiency and fight for decent jobs. A comparison of statistics on enterprises in Brazil and data from the first national map of the Solidary Economy also produces convincing arguments for the value of a singular approach to entrepreneurship in the solidary economic context, and in some respects, in the broader field of small enterprises as well.

Author Biography

Luiz Inácio Gaiger, Universidade do Vale do Rio dos Sinos

Doutor em Sociologia (Université Catholique de Louvain – 1991), há anos dedica-se a estudos sobre os movimentos sociais e a economia solidária, havendo publicado livros e artigos (cf. GAIGER, Luiz (Org.). Sentidos e experiências da economia solidária no Brasil. Porto Alegre: UFRGS, 2004; GAIGER, Luiz et al. (Orgs.). Dicionário Internacional da Outra Economia. Coimbra: Almedina, 2009). Coordenou a pesquisa nacional Características e tendências da economia solidária no Brasil, promovida pela Rede Interuniversitária de Estudos e Pesquisas UNITRABALHO, havendo integrado a Coordenação do Programa de Economia Solidária desta Rede e a Coordenação do Fórum Brasileiro de Economia Solidária. Bolsista de Produtividade do CNPq desde 2000. Professor Titular da Universidade do Vale do Rio dos Sinos (São Leopoldo, RS), é docente do Programa de Pós-Graduação em Ciências Sociais e coordena a Cátedra da UNESCO Trabalho e Sociedade Solidária, implantada em junho de 2002. Com José Luis Coraggio (UNGS/Argentina), coordena a Rede de Investigadores Latino-americanos de Sociologia Social e Solidária – RILESS, sendo um dos Diretores da revista Otra Economía.

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Published

2015-07-06

Issue

No. 79 (2015)

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Artigos

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