Nowadays we hear more and more about people called entrepreneurs, people who decides form of self-employment rather than wage labor. This Option has always chosen certain part of the population, but now appears to have greater... [ view full abstract ]
Nowadays we hear more and more about people called entrepreneurs, people who decides form of self-employment rather than wage labor. This Option has always chosen certain part of the population, but now appears to have greater relevance and social prestige. The discourse of entrepreneurship has been driven not only as a way to encourage unemployed people to look for other employment options, but as a way to blame them of being unemployed.
Within this discourse, the model in which new entrepreneurs should seems the triumphant entrepreneur, self-made, that from scratch has created his own empire. This model, strongly individualistic, where economic profit takes precedence over everything else, given its social acceptance, serves to bring prestige to the venture; but however, it ignores other kinds of undertaking greater social value, such as various cooperative projects or trying to create self-employment options that create a community benefit.
Out of this speech concerned the model of entrepreneur ship is not always found in the social achiever, you can be in the fruit of your neighborhood, in the newsagent, in that cooperative riding a means of self-employment, but also in those people who, unable to find work, as a last option, invest the money in their savings, their compensation or unemployment in a business and are released into the abyss, though helping to reduce the number of unemployed, falling into the "trap" of self.
Once largely overcome the economic crisis, weneed to create spaces for reflection and learning to drive educational processes to insert back into society those sectors of the population most affected have been seen by this. Young people and those over fifty years have been staying away from the production processes.
This latest project is aimed at integrating social and labor training of people at social exclusion as a transition to ordinary employment, assuming and applying the Cooperative Principles and in particular the democratic organization and management by the same stake holders and commitment to the Community by providing guidance and job shadowing and support project development work and the like.
