Workers' Self-Management in Argentina: Contesting Neo-Liberalism by Occupying Companies, Creating Cooperatives, and Recuperating Autogestión

By Marcelo Vieta

In Workers Self-Management in Argentina, Marcelo Vieta homes in on the emergence and consolidation of Argentinas 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 countrys 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 Argentinas long tradition of working-class activism and the broader history of workers responses to capitalist crisis. Beginning with the voices of the movements protagonists, Vieta ultimately develops a compelling social theory of autogestin 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.

See inside the book.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9004268960
• ISBN13: 9789004268968
• Release Date: November 2019
• Publisher: Brill
• Length: 644 Pages
• Weight: 2.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.7" x 6.0" x 9.3"