Co-operative struggles : : work conflicts in Argentina's new worker co-operatives / / Denise Kasparian ; foreword by Julián Rebón ; translated by Ian Barnett.

• Superior document: Studies in critical social sciences ; Volume 203
• VerfasserIn: Kasparian, Denise,
• TeilnehmendeR: Rebón, Julián,; Barnett, Ian (Translator),
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden, The Netherlands ;, Boston : : Brill,, [2022]; ©2022
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Series: Studies in critical social sciences ; Volume 203.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (260 pages)

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. br/> 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?.

Table of Contents

List of Figures, Tables and Images -- Acknowledgements -- Foreword: The Democratisation of Conflict -- Julián Rebón -- Introduction -- The Question of Work Conflicts in New Co-operatives -- Dimensions of New Social Conflicts in Co-operative Socio-Productive Contexts -- The Challenge of Comparing Paradigmatic but Non-Equivalent Experiences: Studying a Whole that Acts as a Whole -- The Structure of the Book -- 1 Co-operatives 'Made in Argentina': The Process of Enterprise Recuperation by their Workers -- The Socio-Genesis of the Processes of Enterprise Recuperation -- The Evolution of Enterprise Recuperation Processes -- 2 Incubated Co-operatives: Co-operative Formation under the Argentina Works Programme -- Social Schemes with Work Requirement: from Workfare to the Argentina Works Programme -- The Mediation of Unemployed Workers' Organisations: Civil Associations, Productive Units and Co-operatives -- The Dual Logic of the Argentina Works Programme's Socio-Genesis: Creating Jobs and Co-ordinating Local Politics -- Induced Co-operatives? The Struggle of Unemployed Workers' Organisations -- 3 Keeping and Having a Job: A Milestone in Constitutive Conflicts -- 'Occupy, Resist, Produce'... and Have! -- From 'Induction' to the 'Co-operative Without Brokers' -- A Comparative Lens on Constitutive Conflicts -- 4 The Recuperated Enterprise and Social Power in Production -- Recuperators, Activists and the 'Born and Bred' -- Property Relations: Social Possession and Differential Appropriation of the Fruits of Labour -- The Logic of Production and the Issue of Sustainability in Recuperated Enterprises -- The Political Dimension: Between Self-Management and Delegation -- Social Groupings and Potential Antagonisms: Opportunity Hoarding, Enterprise Projects and Work Generations -- 5 The Argentina Works Co-operative and State Power in Production -- The Labour and Socio-Spatial Precarity of Argentina Works Programme Workers -- Property Relations: Social Possession and Autonomy -- The Logic of Production: Between Subsistence and Political Accumulation -- The Political Dimension: State Power and Co-management -- Social Groupings and Potential Antagonisms: State Officials, Co-operative Members and Activists -- 6 The Production of Co-operative Conflict -- Board Removals: Conflicts over the Running and Expansion of the Productive Process -- Regulations, Sanctions and Exclusions: from 'Founder Members' to 'Founderer Members' -- "We Fought Over the River Module": The Conflict over Autonomous Work -- Between Subsistence Consumption and Political Accumulation in the Social Organisation -- A Comparative Lens -- Conclusions -- The New Twenty-First-Century Co-operativism and its Struggles Around Work -- What Patterns of Conflicts Are There Without Bosses? Towards a Theory of Unrest in Worker Co-operatives -- From Prelude to Present: A Toolbox for New Research Questions -- Bibliographical References -- Official Documents and Reports -- Regulations -- Statistical Sources -- Cited Interviews -- Index.