Expanded professional qualification in associated work

Abstract

It is argued that associated work experiences, within the Solidarity Economy, promote an expanded professional qualification of workers that, in turn, generates tensions and complements with knowledge and values produced in previous work trajectories, including meanings attributed to the category profession. The research, reference for the article, aimed to know and understand how work experiences mark the qualification of people who chose to work in an associated and solidary way. The empirical referent is the trajectories of workers in a clothing cooperative in southern Brazil, captured through narrative interviews. The concept of extended professional qualification is from ALANIZ (2003) and FRANZOI’s (2006) studies on the profession were used as a guide.