Title Workers' self-management in Argentina : contesting neo-liberalism by occupying companies, creating cooperatives, and recuperating autogestión / by Marcelo Vieta

Published Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2019]

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Description 1 online resource Series Historical materialism book series, 1570-1522 ; volume 199 Historical materialism book series ; 199 Contents Acknowledgements -- Table of Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- List of Abbreviations and Acronyms -- Glossary of Spanish and Other Foreign Terms and Phrases -- Preface -- Introduction -- PART 1 -- The Emergence of Argentina's Empresas Recuperadas por sus Trabajadores: From Workers' Lived Experiences of Crisis to Autogestión -- 1. 'Destiny in Our Own Hands': Three Stories of Workplace Recuperations -- Cooperativa de Trabajo Chilavert Artes Gráficas -- Cooperativa de Trabajo 'Unión Solidaria de Trabajadores' -- Cooperativa de Trabajo de la Salud Junín -- Mobilising Direct Action Strategies and Workplace Solidarity -- 2. Empresas Recuparadas pos sus Trabajadores: Why, Where, What, and How -- Section 1: The Emergence of Argentina's Empresas Recuperadas (with Andrés Ruggeri) -- Section 2: ERT Types and Experiences of Workplace Conversions Around the World -- The Emergence and Characteristics of Empresas Recuperadas: A Summation -- 3. The Political Economy of Argentina's Working Class: Historical Underpinnings of the Empresas Recuperadas -- Section 1: The Rise and Consolidation of Argentina's Working Class (1900-89) -- Section 2: Argentina's Neo-liberal Turn and the After-effects of Socio-Economic Crisis (1990-2016) -- Section 3: Working-Class Recomposition and New Forms of Self-Managed Workers' Organisations (2001-17) -- ERTs and the Political Economy of the Working Class in Argentina: A Summation -- PART 2 -- Theorising and Historicising Autogestión -- Chapter 4 The Stream of Self-Determination: Freedom, Cooperation, and the Recuperations of Living Labour -- Section 1: The Stream of Self-Determination and Modern Socialist Thought -- Section 2: Critical Theories of Labour and Capitalist Technology -- Section 3: ERTs' Six Recuperative Moments -- Cooperative Self-Determination, Recuperation, and Argentina's ERTs: Looking Forward -- 5. A Genealogy of Autogestión -- Section 1: Autogestión and the Self-Determination of Productive Life -- Section 2: Cooperatives, the Social and Solidarity Economy, and Autogestión -- Autogestión and the Continuing Stream of Self-Determination -- PART 3 The Consolidation of Argentina's Empresas Recuperadas: Common Experiences, Challenges, and Social Transformations -- Chapter 6. 'Occupy, Resist, Produce': Commonalities in the Lived Experiences of Recuperating Workplaces in Argentina (with Andrés Ruggeri) -- Section 1: From Workplace Conflicts to Autogestión -- Section 2: The Strategies and Tactics of 'Occupy, Resist, Produce' -- Re-appropriating Relevant Laws, Deploying Cooperative Values -- 7. The Challenges of Autogestión and ERT Workers' Responses -- Section 1: Production Challenges -- Section 2: An Ambivalent Relationship with the State -- Section 3: Local and Transnational Solidarity Networks of Autogestión -- Organising Between ERTs and the Community to Collectively Overcome Challenges -- 8. Recuperating the Labour Process, Transforming Subjectivities: From Empleados to Compañeros and Trabajadores Autogestionados -- Section 1: Cooperatively Working and Democratising the Shop -- Section 2: Recuperating Cooperative Skills and Values, Informal Shop Floor Learning, and Transformed Subjectivities -- Section 3: Recuperating Social Production for Social Wealth -- Challenging ERTs' 'Dual Reality' -- PART 4 Recuperating Autogestión -- 9. Recuperating Autogestión, Prefiguring Alternatives: Some Possible Conclusions -- On Workers' Recuperations of Autogestión -- The Conjunctural Realities of Argentina's ERTs -- Autogestión and Argentina's ERTs -- Revisiting ERTs' 'Dual Reality' -- Revisiting ERTs' Radical Social Innovations and Recuperative Moments -- Revisiting the Definition of Argentina's Empresas Recuperadas por sus Trabajadores -- Closing Thoughts, Continued Openings -- Appendix: Formal Interviews Conducted, Meetings Attended, and Cooperatives Visited -- Bibliography Summary "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"-- Provided by publisher Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher; resource not viewed Subject Employee ownership -- Argentina -- History -- 20th century Employee ownership -- Argentina -- History -- 21st century Management -- Employee participation -- Argentina -- History -- 20th century Management -- Employee participation -- Argentina -- History -- 21st century Neoliberalism -- Argentina Employee ownership Management -- Employee participation Neoliberalism Argentina Genre/Form History Form Electronic book LC no. 2019031390 ISBN 9004268952 9789004268951

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