Limites da autogestão em fábricas recuperadas e as contradições do capital

Abstract

The present work tries to find out, through bibliographic research, the limits of self-management to overcome the capital’s production and reproduction logic. In this context, the experiences of worker-recovered companies were the base of this research. In Business Administration undergraduate schools, this topic hasn’t been developed and debated compared to the heterogeneous management developed in capitalist companies. Therefore, it was attempted to present some introductory concepts regarding to self-management so readers could become more familiar with those questions. The same applies for some Marxist categories used as the basis for this analysis. The obtained results indicated that self-management occurs in capitalism in a contradictory way. At the same time that it offers greater participation to the workers, it maintains the capital’s logic of exploitation over labor. It changes in form, but not the content of capitalist exploitation.