Possibilities of the popular and solidary economy in Brazil: notes

Abstract

This article discusses popular and solidarity economy – EPS - in Brazil. The main argument is that the conditions for a strengthening of the EPS across the public sector economy and enterprises’ economy are more favorable today, due to three major movements that bring together central and peripheral countries around the debate of different forms of production: a) increasing articulation of the popular economy to the
global production chains; b) politicization that occurs with the extended urbanization throughout the territory; c) growing criticism of the market society and the advancement of counter-movements in response.
However, the rise of EPS, from a precarious component of global networks to a key for a plural economy, will not happen without major changes in the modes of regulation governing the daily relationships and the
public policies.

Keywords: popular economy, solidarity economy, precarious labor, plural economy.