The purpose of this text is to reflect about the organized work in productive social networks, taking as an example the Rede de Agroecologia Ecovida (Ecovida Agroecology Network), located in the States of Santa Catarina and Rio Grande do Sul. The research payed a special attention to the complexities inherent to the network that was developed by the family farmers in two locations in the state of Santa Catarina. It has been researched, among others, the peculiarities of the agroecology production, the innovative techniques to produce, the increase in worth of the traditional social practices in the rural environment, as the increasing risks for the small farmer. In front of such a broad scenario of the worsening in the work relations, the reflection concentrated in forms of the organization of social productive networks, characterized as alternative production projects, that presents two directions – that of cooperation and that of the drive to economical results. More specifically, it intended to investigate the consequences and challenges of these relations, paying attention to the real configuration of the work in society.