Workers’ Self-Management in Argentina

Contesting Neo-Liberalism by Occupying Companies, Creating Cooperatives, and Recuperating Autogestión

• Author(s): Marcelo Vieta,
• Publisher: BRILL
• Pages: 680
• ISBN_10: 9004268952
  ISBN_13: 9789004268951
  
• Language: en
• Categories: History / Social History , Social Science / Ethnic Studies / General , Philosophy / Political , Social Science / General , History / Military / Revolutions & Wars of Independence , Political Science / Political Ideologies / General , Business & Economics / Labor / General , Social Science / Sociology / General , Political Science / Political Ideologies / Communism, Post-Communism & Socialism , Political Science / Political Freedom ,

Description:... In Workers’ Self-Management in Argentina, Marcelo Vieta homes in on the emergence and consolidation of Argentina’s empresas recuperadas por sus trabajadores (ERTs, worker-recuperated enterprises), a workers’ occupy movement that surged at the turn-of-the-millennium in the thick of the country’s neo-liberal crisis. Since then, around 400 companies have been taken over and converted to cooperatives by almost 16,000 workers. Grounded in class-struggle Marxism and a critical sociology of work, the book situates the ERT movement in Argentina’s long tradition of working-class activism and the broader history of workers’ responses to capitalist crisis. Beginning with the voices of the movement’s protagonists, Vieta ultimately develops a compelling social theory of autogestión – a politically prefigurative and ethically infused notion of workers’ self-management that unleashes radical social change for work organisations, surrounding communities, and beyond.

Workers’ Self-Management in Argentina received an Honorable Mention from the 2022 Joyce Rothschild Book Prize.

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