A Future for the Excluded : Job Creation and Income Generation by the Poor - Clodomir Santos de Morais and the Organization Workshop

Clodomir Santos de Morais is to organizational and entrepreneurial literacy what his Brazilian confrere, Paulo Freire, is to ordinary literacy. This book introduces for the first time in English the experiences of grassroots development workers who have applied his ideas of the Organization Workshop (OW) and capacitation in highly diverse social settings. One of the most exciting aspects of de Morais's methods of working with the most marginalized sectors of society is their relevance not just to Third World countries, but also to Eastern Europe's economies in transition and the most deprived areas of the industrialized countries. This highly distinctive grassroots development approach to empowering socially excluded strata in economic and organizational terms holds out the prospect of becoming a very important factor in the struggle against poverty. This book, translated from Spanish, contains 20 chapters by various authors examining and expanding on the work of Clodomir Santos de Morais in educating and empowering the poor, mostly in Latin America, for entrepreneurship. One of the chapters is by de Morais. The following are included, organized in four sections: "Those Who Don't Eat and Those Who Don't Sleep" (Raff Carmen and Miguel Sobrado); "Clodomir Santos de Morais: The Origins of the Large-Scale Capacitation Theory and Method" (Miguel Sobrado); "The Large Group Capacitation Method and Social Participation: Theoretical Considerations" (Clodomir Santos de Morais); "From Paulo Freire to Clodomir Santos de Morais: From Critical to Organizational Consciousness" (Jacinta Castelo Branco Correia); "From Navvies to Entrepreneurs: The OW [Organization Workshop] in Costa Rica" (Miguel Sobrado); "Sacked Agricultural Workers Take on the Multinationals in Honduras" (Benjamin Erazo); "The Mexican Experience" (Juan Jose Rojas Herrera); "The OW in Panama, Columbia, Venezuela, Ecuador and Peru" (Miguel Sobrado); "Three Decades of Work with OWs in Latin America" (Lepoldo Sandoval); "'Doing Enterprises' in Wartime and Post-War Mozambique" (Isabel Labra and Ivan Labra); "In Angola, Guinea Bissau and Sao Tome e Principe" (Paulo Roberto da Silva); "Hard Learning in Zimbabwe (SADET) and in Post-Civil War Mozambique" (Isabel Labra and Ivan Labra); "Organization Development (OD) and the Moraisean OW in South Africa and Botswana" (Gavin Andersson); "The Potential of the OW in the Former Soviet Bloc Countries and in Economies in Crisis" (Miguel Sobrado); "Post-Salazar Portugal: The First European SIPGEI (Social Participation System for the Identification of Job and Income Generation Projects)" (Isabel Labra and Ivan Labra); "The Crisis of Work and the Welfare Reform Plans in Western Countries" (Raff Carmen); Section IV: From Local OWs to National Employment-Generation Systems: "The Brazilian PROGEI-SIPGEIs (employment and income generating projects) of the 1980s and 1990s" (Jacinta Castelo Branco Correia); "The PAE and the Self-Employment Project in Brazil" (Walter Barelli); "The OW and Civil Society in Brazil" (Jacinta Castelo Branco Correia); and "The OW's Potential: Concluding Observations" (Miguel Sobrado). The book includes a selected bibliography listing 97 works by and about Clodomir Santos de Morais. (KC) Those who don't eat and those who don't sleep Clodomir Santos de Morais : the origins of the large-scale capacitation theory and method The large group capacitation method and social participation : theoretical considerations From Paulo Freire to Clodomir Santos de Morais : from critical to organizational consciousness From Navvies to entrepreneurs : the OW in Costa Rica Sacked agricultural workers take on the multinationals in Honduras The Mexican experience The OW in Panama, Colombia, Venezuela, Ecuador and Peru Three decades of work with OWs in Latin America 'Doing enterprises' in wartime and post-war Mozambique In Angola, Guinea Bissau and São Tomé e Principe Hard learning in Zimbabwe (SADET) and in post-civil war Mozambique Organization development (OD) and the Moraisean OW in South Africa and Botswana The potential of the OW in the former Soviet Bloc countries and in economies in crisis Post-Salazar Portugal : the first European SIPGEI The crisis of work and the welfare reform plans in western countries The Brazilian PROGEI-SIPGEIs of the 1980s and 1990s The PAE and the self-employment project in Brazil The OW and civil society in Brazil The OWs potential : concluding observations. Clodomir Santos de Morais is to organizational and entrepreneurial literacy what his Brazilian confrere and one time fellow political prisoner, Paulo Freire, is to ordinary literacy. This book introduces for the first time in English the experiences of grassroots development workers who have applied his ideas of the Organization Workshop (OW) and capacitation in highly diverse social settings. De Morais's methods of working with the most marginalized sectors of society are relevant not just to Third World countries, but also to the "economies in transition" of Eastern Europe and the most deprived areas of the industrialized countries. Introduces for the first time in English the experiences of grassroots development workers who have applied the ideas of Clodomir Santos de Morais in diverse social settings.