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

• Superior document: Historical materialism book series ; Volume 199
• VerfasserIn: Vieta, Marcelo,
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden, The Netherlands : : Brill,, [2019]; ©2020
• Year of Publication: 2019
• Language: English
• Series: Historical materialism book series ; Volume 199
• Physical Description: 1 online resource.

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.

Table of Contents

Part 1: The Emergence of Argentina’s Empresas Recuperadas por sus Trabajadores: From Workers’ Lived Experiences of Crisis to Autogestión -- ‎Part 2: Theorising and Historicising Autogestión -- ‎Part 3: The Consolidation of Argentina’s Empresas Recuperadas: Common Experiences, Challenges, and Social Transformations -- ‎Part 4. Recuperating Autogestión.