This article presents a doctoral research that aimed to discuss relationships between work and politics in the daily lives of a self-managed network. Justa Trama brings together about six hundred workers of seven economic enterprises from all regions of Brazil, it encompasses most of the links in the textile production chain from agroecological cotton plantation. An extensive ethnographic fieldwork enabled to monitor the political activities of the network between 2010-2012. The works of Agnes Heller about daily life are the main theoretical framework of this research. The network proved dialectically as an economic organization, whose purpose is to generate income, and as a political organization, resistance to the capitalist mode of production. It was also concluded that politics in the daily self-management of the network can be regarded as inherent to the work, and the work can be taken as an object of political activity of the group of workers.
social psychology; work; everyday life; self-management; solidarity economy; social practices
