Potencialidades de práticas artesanais associativas como alternativas de geração de renda em Machado - MG

Abstract

Contemporary society is experiencing a period that emphasizes the "check" the social structures in view of developments in the economic, social and environmental. Increasing social inequality, unemployment, bankruptcy of the financial system by requiring the immediate intervention of the state in "free market" brings questions about the culture, as a vector for the determination of political, economic and social, in which the foundations of this society are grounded. Recently rises significantly in Brazil, the Solidarity Economy and its pillared ideological practices that seek to ensure: social equity, ecological balance and creating jobs and income. Significantly advances as an alternative to development. However, although the numbers are impressive, note that the Solidarity Economy, calls within their enterprises to disseminate a culture that values, above all, cooperation and solidarity, and collective interests prevail over individual economic undertakings , ie counter to the values and beliefs constructed within modern Western societies. Thus, this study seeks to understand the cultural phenomena that may favor or limit the development and expansion of economic enterprises from sympathetic study of handicraft associations in the city of Machado - MG, potential source of employment and income in the county. Discussions of justice in commercial transactions are those that appear most. Of all the great difficulty still seems to break a whole culture of consumption, accumulation and individualism that prevails in Western society.