Abstract

MASSERA, Maricel Lorena  and  LOGIODICE, Luisina. Workers' cooperatives and its intermediary organizations: Federation as an agency of multisectorial coordination in the city of Santa Fe, Argentina. SaberEs [online]. 2019, vol.11, n.2, pp.113-131. ISSN 1852-4418.

Within the framework of substantial growth of the workers' cooperative movement which took place chiefly in the '90s and deepened at the beginning of the 21st century, second-tier organizations that syndicate such cooperatives have gained momentum as mechanisms that promote the sector. Beginning with the description of such processes and the acknowledgement of the potentialities that intercooperative organizations have for the sector itself and towards society, this article attempts to reflect and analyze a specific and recent case: a federation of workers' cooperatives established in the city of Santa Fe, Argentina. For that, it investigates the motivations and needs that gave rise to the federation and the means in which they are addressed in terms of the goals and actions proposed. In addition, this article characterizes their constituents and the links established between them, as well as other institutional agents. Finally, it recognizes the potentialities they present for the cooperative sector of the region, and reflect about the intrinsic complexity of associative work experiences and intercooperative integration in the development of common goals.

Keywords : Workers' Cooperativism; Second-tier Organizations; Intercooperative integration.