The current so-called social economy has a significant importance in many advanced economies, others are Cooperatives. Institutions that add to its own objectives to meet the purposes of social character, other than the simple profit maximization pursuing commercial or commercial companies to use.Within this institutional diversity are cooperatives of different nature which have greater economic weight and especially social for its historical roots. True, they have also suffered the rigors of the crisis, but no more than the rest of the enterprise system; and in any case, responses to the crisis have also prevailed these differentials social objectives, with relatively minor reductions in employment and distribution of adjustment costs less skewed than in conventional companies.The social economy, which is what characterizes cooperatives, emphasizes solidarity than in conventional compan...