Beyond appropriation of the means of production? the socio-technical adequation process in recovered firms / Para alem da apropriação dos meios de produção? : o processo de adequação socio-tecnica em fabricas recuperadas

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2005

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This dissertation presents the conclusions and the methodologica1 theoretica1 course of a research accomplished in eight Recovered Firms (FRs) from Brazil, Argentine and Uruguay to identify processes of Socio-Technica1 Adequation (STA). In the theoretica1 approach, we began by evaluating the conception, among other, of the marxism s mainstream that believes that the productive forces follow a relentless road and they can be used in an eventual socialist society. Probably for that reason, the supporting of the Solidary Economy believe that the conventional technology, engendered under the aegis of the capitalist social relations of production to promote the accumulation of capital of the great companies, can be used without significant modifications in the self management enterprises that they extol. Based on the vision of those that revisiting the focus of the social construction of the technology argues in the antagonistic sense, and in the latin-americans studies on techno-economical learning, we conceived the concept of STA. It can be understood as an inverse process of the socio-technical construction, in that a technologica1 artefact would suffer an adaptation process to the values and politica1 interests of relevant social groups, different from those that originally participated in it construction. In the empiric research, we observed that RFs, in spite of having inserted in the system producing of goods and tending to reproduce the work relationships inherited, promoted processes of STA in the leve1s: a) software: changes of cultural nature linked to the partition of the surplus (closer or equalitarian "wages"), partial adaptation of the factory to the workers interests, appropriation of the knowledge of the productive process without modification of the division of the labour; b) orgware: appropriation of the productive process s knowledge with modification in the division of the labour; c) hardware: acquisition of machines, adaptations and recapacity. Although the observed firms have promoted processes that interfere in the typology of seven modalities of ST A proposed in the methodology developed in the research, they face obstacles related with: a) the naturalization of the labour process s organization for those cooperated, b) the fetish of the technology, that takes us to believe the last technology is always the best and ignore it relational character, c) the necessary time for a significant transformation of the productive forces and in the way of partition in the surplus, d) the impediments imposed by the capitalist market

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forces of production solidariedade brazil self management factories cooperatives argentina social aspects uruguay administração - participação dos empregados tecnologia - aspectos sociais technology cooperativas

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