Promoting cooperative self-management through public policies: the Alianza Cambiemos
Abstract
This article analyzes continuities and ruptures introduced by the alliance Cambiemos in the implementation of the Self-Managed Work Program (Ministry of Labor), and the Social Income with Work Program (Ministry of Social Development). Cambiemos found a solid state structure of job creation through the associativism approach that allowed, between 2003 and 2015, to attend informal and chronic unemployed. In the first half of the mandate, it increased the budgets, eliminated the requirement to organize the unemployed in cooperatives in order to access to subsidies, and strengthened the economic-administrative power of social organizations. The objective was to support the assistance to the chronically excluded and to contain possible social conflicts in a critical economic scenario induced by their own policies.
