Agricultores familiares e cooperativas : relações sociais de produção na cadeia produtiva do leite na região do Vale do Taquari/RS - Brasil.

Abstract

In this thesis, the social relations of production between family farmers and cooperatives in the milk production chain in the Vale do Taquari region, Rio Grande do Sul / RS - Brazil, are analyzed. As an empirical object of analysis, Cooperativa Languiru Ltda., With headquarters in the Municipality of Teutônia / RS, and Cooperativa dos Suinocultores de Encantado Ltda. - Cosuel, headquartered in the Municipality of Encantado / RS - Brazil. The research question sought to answer the following question: how are the social relations of production established between family farmers and cooperatives in the milk production chain? The relations of production are established among men in the process of social production irrespective of the individual will of each in the process of production, and the levels of development of these relations depend on the degree of development of the material productive forces of the society in which they are found. They exhibit interaction, although at certain times one or another link shows a certain dominance over the others, depending on the strength and power of the market. The capitalist mode of production in rural areas is marked by contradictory characteristics intrinsic to the system itself. Thus, capital now conceives of capitalist relations, or it generates relations not typically capitalist, as with the family farmer producing milk, in the development of his work activities, which he receives by the product of his labor and not by his productive force or by his working hours. In this research, dialectical historical materialism was adopted as a theoretical-methodological framework. From the dialectic, it became possible to understand and deepen the subject matter in question. For the reflection and deepening, it was used thematic oral history, which made possible the understanding of the complexity that composes the social relations of production. As a result of the research, it is concluded that the Cooperatives Languiru and Cosuel began to review their managerial practices through the typically capitalist logic. The behavioral adaptations that have occurred have led to an ideological crisis of cooperativism, characterized by the prevailing capitalist values over the original values of cooperativism, although family farmers producing milk and cooperatives show a sense of respect, pride and loyalty to cooperatives created over 60 years ago. Years, in the territory of Vale do Taquari / RS. A priori, cooperativism is recognized as a symbol of democracy, because it is characterized as a model of productive organization that establishes the untying of the traditional employeremployee concept. However, with the passage of time, the cooperativism changed its managerial practices, changing its roots.