In recent years, important changes have occurred in the composition and characteristics of the Colombian labor market. Changes in which a high decrease in the number of dependent workers and correlatively a increase in "independent" or "self-employed" workers; added to this, informality is present in all sectors of economic activity, affecting about 60% of the workforce. In addition, the repercussions of the conflict have come altering the spatial distribution of the population, product of displacement forced, directly affecting the job offer. It generates a phenomenon structural unemployment and disintegration. As a result of this, it has taken relevant importance since the end of the the nineties of the last century, the organization of work through worker cooperatives. However, these have been the object of constant attention and criticism by the solidarity, government, union and academic sector given the evidence of a vertiginous increase of this type of entities in number, presence in the labor universe, and above all by the development of controversial precarious practices labor. The above has led to "demonizing" the model of worker cooperatives associate and contemplate even its extinction without taking into account that the typology The organizational structure of the associated work cooperative is not bad because of its specificity, by the peculiar interpretations made by some of its promoters for the purpose of reduction of labor costs