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ROSAS HEIMPEL, Carolina. Outlines of Cooperativism on the Northern Border of Mexico: The Case of Ciudad Juarez, Chihuahua.Traducido porLuis Cejudo-Espinosa. Frontera norte [online]. 2022, vol.34, e2229.  Epub 19-Sep-2022. ISSN 2594-0260.  https://doi.org/10.33679/rfn.v1i1.2229.

The objective of the article is to present a panoramic analysis of cooperativism in Ciudad Juarez. A concurrent mixed method organized in two parallel phases is used: quantitative and qualitative. The documentary research consisted of reviewing newspaper sources and public archives to identify the legally constituted cooperatives. Observation techniques and semi-structured in-depth interviews were used. The main results are the outline of the background of cooperativism in Ciudad Juarez, its contours, and its macroeconomic presence. It also analyzes the correspondence of the management, practices, and values of the cooperative universe and the ideology and proposal of the social and solidarity economy. As an exploratory study, this article contributes to the documentation, reflection, and research on this subject, since the performance, practices, values, and potential are Little known. The main limitation of the research is the lack of complete, transparent, and reliable statistical data on cooperativism.

Palabras llave : cooperativism; social economy; solidarity economy; Ciudad Juarez; northern border.

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