Workers' self-management in Argentina contesting neo-liberalism by occupying companies, creating cooperatives, and recuperating autogestión

"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...

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1. Verfasser: Vieta, Marcelo (VerfasserIn)
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Sprache:eng
Veröffentlicht: Chicago, IL Haymarket Books 2020
Ausgabe:Published in paperback
Schriftenreihe:Historical materialism book series volume 199
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Zusammenfassung:"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"--
Beschreibung:Includes bibliographical references and index
Beschreibung:XXXV, 644 Seiten
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ISBN:9781642593396
978-1-64259-339-6