Programa de assistência ao cooperativismo na Região Amazônica: Estudo sobre uma experiência cooperativista na Região Amazônica na década de 60

Abstract

This research is based on the analysis of an archive on the “Program of Assistance to the Cooperatives in the Amazon region”, this implanted and executed in the Amazon region during the decade of 60. The study of this Program alone it was possible due to access possibility the documentary sources and archivists, pertaining to the family of a bank clerk, already deceased, that it was part of the first one, and only, group of Agents of Cooperative Credit – ACC, formed in the decade of 1960 for the Bank of Credit of Amazônia S/A – BCA, with the purpose to assist the formation of 50 agricultural cooperatives in the corresponding region to the Legal Amazônia. It was intended with the analysis of this archive, having as base Comparative Weberian Sociology, to reflect on this cooperative experience in the process of economic planning searching to confer to this quantity the possibility to clarify the question amplest of the proper development of the Amazônia.