Co-Operative Struggles: Work Conflicts in Argentina's New Worker Co-Operatives

By Denise Kasparian

In Co-operative Struggles, Denise Kasparian expands the theoretical horizons regarding labour unrest by proposing new categories to make visible and conceptualize conflicts in the new worker co-operativism of the twenty-first century.

After the depletion of neoliberal reforms at the dawn of the twenty-first century in Argentina, co-operativism gained momentum, mainly due to the recuperation of enterprises by their workers and state promotion of co-operatives through social policies. These new co-operatives became actors not just in production but in social struggle. Their peculiarity lies in the fact that they shape a socio-productive form not structured on wage relations: workers are at the same time members of the organisations. Why, how and by what cleavages and groupings do these co-operative workers without bosses come into conflict?

Co-operative Struggles received honourable mention in 2024 for the biennial Joyce Rothschild Book Prize, which recognizes significant contributions to the advancement of economic democracy.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9004468587
• ISBN13: 9789004468580
• Release Date: November 2021
• Publisher: Brill
• Length: 248 Pages
• Weight: 1.19 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.2"