"Popular Cooperatives" and Local Development in South-East Brazil: Towards Socio-Economic Pluralism
(2013) Securing Livelihoods. Informal Economy Practices and Institutions — ISBN: [9780199687015], p. 25-46, published
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- (en) Recent research looking at the inner logics of the informal economy suggests that practices are driven more by people’s need for security than for monetary growth or capital accumulation per se. In this context, this chapter presents a Polanyian framework for the analysis of economic activities, which enables a pluralistic and comprehensive conception of economic initiatives. We apply this methodology to an in-depth analysis of a set of ‘popular cooperatives’ in the state of Rio de Janeiro (Brazil), to gain a better insight into their contributions to local development. We conclude with a discussion of how methodological pluralism in socio-economics enables a broader and deeper understanding of economy than what is allowed with the mere formal meaning of it.
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Lemaître, A. (2013). “Popular Cooperatives” and Local Development in South-East Brazil: Towards Socio-Economic Pluralism. In Hillenkamp, Isabelle; Lapeyre, Frédéric and Lemaître, Andreia (ed.), Securing Livelihoods. Informal Economy Practices and Institutions (p. p. 25-46). Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199687015.003.0002