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 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 autogesti n - 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: 680 Pages
• Weight: 2.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.7" x 6.0" x 9.3"