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 by wage relations: workers are at the same time owners of the firms. Why, how, and by what cleavages and groupings do these co-operative workers without bosses come into conflict?

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 164259802X
• ISBN13: 9781642598025
• Release Date: November 2022
• Publisher: Haymarket Books
• Length: 248 Pages
• Weight: 0.71 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"