O PROCESSO DE INDUSTRIALIZAÇÃO EM BLUMENAU E SUA RELAÇÃO COM O COOPERATIVISMO: O CASO DA CIA. HERING

Abstract

The industrialization process of Blumenau has been the object of analysis in many studies developed, considering various approaches, and working hypotheses. From the nineties of the last century, the profound changes brought about by the productive (de) restructuring caused in the textile/clothing sector directly, affecting the relations between capital and labor in the region. Published studies have identified an articulation between sector restructuring and the proliferation of labor cooperatives. In fact, the crisis of the late 1980s represented the replacement of the traditional business - credit and consumer cooperatives (which became autonomous in the following decade) with the business - labor cooperatives relationship. Therefore, the articulation between the industrialization process and cooperativism is a characteristic of the development of the textile/clothing sector, and it is, therefore plausible to consider that the industrialization and capital accumulation process in Blumenau was permeated by a profound articulation of the large capitalist companies with credit cooperativism. and consumer co-operatives after the crisis of the 1980s. The creation, expansion and transformation of consumer and credit co-operatives of textile, workers should be understood as fundamental processes in the analysis of industrialization developed here of the relations between capital and labor. From this hypothesis, this is a preliminary and exploratory study aiming to describe the processes of large Blumenau companies involving the creation, maintenance and consolidation of credit and consumer cooperatives. For this, we use the case of Cia. Hering, which was responsible for the creation of the two largest credit and consumption cooperatives in the region. The purpose of this paper is to describe the process of creation, expansion and disengagement between Cia. Hering and the cooperatives.