SOCIAL UTILITY IN SOLIDARY ECONOMY: IDENTIFYING ELEMENTS IN SOCIAL ENTERPRISES - THE CASE OF CRAFTWORK´S WOMEN FROM NATAL / RN
SOCIAL UTILITY. SOLIDARITY ENTERPRISES. WOMEN. CRAFTWORK.
This dissertation has as object the segment of solidarity economic enterprises in craftwork production at Natal/RN, members in the Research-Action in Administration, Market and Gender Relations in Solidarity Economy project: application, evaluation and improvement of incubation methodology of Solidary Economic Enterprises (Natal, 2016/2017), through the fomentation of the National Secretary for Solidarity Economy of the Ministry of Labor and Employment (SENAES / MTE). The selected groups are predominantly female, with a uniform socioeconomic profile and endowed with frailties. As a presupposition, it is assumed that enterprises built and maintained under such conditions have qualities that transcend the economicist bias. Against this assumption, the objective of this work is to identify dimensions of social utility social (França Filho, 2004; Gadrey, 2005; Laville, 2014; Jany-Catrice et al., 2014) in solidarity projects of the craftwork sector presented in the literature and to confront them with the practices and the reality of these organizations followed by the intermediary objectives that permeate the existing social utility dimensions in the literature, so as to be able to confront them with the practices and discourses of the associates to demonstrate, according to the results obtained that these enterprises, especially those of the segment object of this research, can be useful both for society and for the personal life of associates when analyzed on the basis of the dimensions of social utility. The data will be collected through focus groups (Barbour, 2009) with semi structured scripts, added by direct observation (Flick, 2009) to the 17 searched groups and analyzed and interpreted based on the technique of content analysis proposed by Bardin (2011). As a result, it is expected to prove that the survival of a part of the enterprises of the solidarity economy, the urban one and related to craftwork, is not only due to the economic and monetary bias. It happens through the social, cultural and political relations of social utility and the capacity of the enterprises to develop associative dynamics, to establish cooperative ties based on trust, solidarity and sense of belonging.