This article focuses on the links of pleasure, distress, and work organization in the everyday life of workers of a cooperative associated with the social economy movement. Our research proposal seeks to articulate a macro-social interpretation of the socioeconomic context with a micro-social analysis based on the Work Psychodynamic theory. We have analyzed, with the workers, cutting, sewing, and silk-screen activities developed in the solidarity enterprise. The results have pointed out workers' identification with co-operativism, as well as with the possibility of the solidarity relations and management converting distress into pleasure, promoting the mental health through the continuous re-discussion of work organization and the creation of new ways of experiencing work.
work; mental health; solidarity economy