The cooperative Democratic Workers of the West. Scope and limits of an experience of solidarity economy from the workers' struggle for the recovery of the company and its partnership with private corporations

Abstract

The cooperative experience of Trabajadores Democráticos de Occidente (TRADOC) in the state of Jalisco, Mexico, offers us an opportunity to study the companies recovered by their workers with their chiaroscuros and contradictions. If it becomes an emblematic production cooperative in Mexico, given its struggles and achievements in many ways, the current situation of the social enterprise is going through a severe internal crisis whose outcome is highly uncertain. Based on our own study, we recover the experience in an articulated manner from complex thinking and qualitative approach, and we support ourselves with the documentary review -systematizations and hemerographic sources- to update its recent history, so that we can have a more complete study. of the history of successes and failures of this experience, trusting that its lessons and learning will help in understanding the complex reality of solidarity economies and their challenges in our Latin America.

Keywords: cooperativism, companies recovered by their workers, solidarity economies, complexity, uncertainty.