Programa Pólos de Cidadania: contribuições para a realização do direito ao trabalho digno por meio de práticas extensionistas voltadas para o cooperativismo e a qualificação profissional

Abstract

This article is about university extension practices for the effectiveness of the fundamental right to dignified work of workers with social vulnerabilities organized as a work cooperative (COOPMULT). A brief debate about university extension programs in Brazil will be presented, among with the way the Polos de Cidadania Program positions itself towards an emancipating extension model. Through action-research, the Right to Dignified Work and Homeless People acts since 2016 besides COOPMULT in many actions that contribute to the workers’ professional and political education and the formalization of the cooperative, using activities such as preparation and monitoring of the cooperates through professional qualification courses and legal and psychosocial advisory. At last, the impacts that those extension practices made with the workers will be analyzed, regarding the incentive to schooling, the strengthening of COOPMULT and the generating of work and income to the cooperates, essential elements for the effectiveness of the right to dignified work.