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...

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.