
doi: 10.2139/ssrn.2532447
Spanish Abstract: Las organizaciones de recicladores de base han sido analizadas en varios contextos como una salida a la informalidad y un antidoto a la pobreza de los que trabajan en este sector. El analisis presentado en este articulo esta enfocado en dos estudios de caso en el area metropolitana de Santiago de Chile, donde se han analizado dos comunas en las que trabajan algunas organizaciones de recicladores. El objetivo del estudio era entender las dinamicas organizacionales y el potencial de estas organizaciones para pasar de una situacion de informalidad, asociada con la idea de la economia popular, a la capacidad de incorporarse como organizaciones mas estructuradas en el contexto de la economia social y solidaria. Los resultados evidencian una serie de ventajas aportadas por las organizaciones de recicladores a nivel social, economico, medioambiental y comunitario, y una serie de desafios que todavia obstaculizan en este contexto el ulterior desarrollo de las organizaciones y el empoderamiento de sus socios. English Abstract: Waste pickers’ organizations have been analyzed in different contexts as a way to exit informality and to overcome poverty of this sector’s workers. This paper focuses on two case-studies carried out in municipalities of the Metropolitan area of Santiago de Chile in which there are a number of waste pickers’ organizations. The aim of the study was to understand the organizational dynamics and the potential of these organizations in the light of shifting from a situation of informality, associated with the concept of popular economy, to more structured organizations in the context of social and solidarity economy. Results highlight several advantages that recyclers’ organizations bring at the social, economic, environmental and community level, and several challenges that in this context are still preventing these organizations’ further development and the empowerment of their members.
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