Democratization Enabled By Participatory Premises In The Qualitative Study Of Companies Recovered By Their Workers (CRW)

Incidents of companies being recovered by their workers that have occurred in different countries have attracted media attention. Based on ideological tendencies, some experts have interpreted these processes as an indicator for their fulfillment of their own predictions. In contrast to these interpretations, this article focuses on the effectiveness of the use of the main premises of Participatory Action Research (PAR). The focus is on understanding the point of view of the involved protagonists. Qualitative evidence is presented (Díaz Ruíz, 2014) demonstrating the existence of disaffected feelings towards experts caused by their interviewing approaches. This disaffection is explained as a consequence of pre-built ideas connected to the experts' ideological tendencies.