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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.
Contents
Preface
Class Matters
Why I Wrote This Book
Acknowledgements
Figures and Tables
Figures
Tables
Abbreviations and Acronyms
Introduction
1. Neo-liberal Crisis, Popular Revolt, and Autogestión
2. The Approach
3. What We Will Learn
4. ERTs’ Symbolic Dimension, Legitimacy, and the ‘Moral Economy of Work’
5. Anticipating the ‘Dual Reality’ of Argentina’s ERTs
Part 1. The Emergence of Argentina’s Empresas Recuperadas por sus Trabajadores: From Workers’ Lived Experiences of Crisis to Autogestión
Chapter 1. ‘Destiny in Our Own Hands’: Three Stories of Workplace Recuperations
1. Cooperativa de Trabajo Chilavert Artes Gráficas
2. Cooperativa de Trabajo ‘Unión Solidaria de Trabajadores’
3. Cooperativa de Trabajo de la Salud Junín
4. Mobilising Direct Action Strategies and Workplace Solidarity
Chapter 2. Empresas Recuparadas pos sus Trabajadores: Why, Where, What, and How
1. Section 1: The Emergence of Argentina’s Empresas Recuperadas (with Andrés Ruggeri)
2. Section 2: ERT Types and Experiences of Workplace Conversions around the World
3. The Emergence and Characteristics of Empresas Recuperadas: A Summation
Chapter 3. The Political Economy of Argentina’s Working Class: Historical Underpinnings of the Empresas Recuperadas
1. Section 1: The Rise and Consolidation of Argentina’s Working Class (1900–89)
2. Section 2: Argentina’s Neo-liberal Turn and the After-Effects of Socio-economic Crisis (1990–2016)
3. Section 3: Working-Class Recomposition and New Forms of Self-Managed Workers’ Organisations (2001–17)
4. ERTs and the Political Economy of the Working Class in Argentina: A Summation
Part 2. Theorising and Historicising Autogestión
Chapter 4. The Stream of Self-Determination: Freedom, Cooperation, and the Recuperations of Living Labour
1. Section 1: The Stream of Self-Determination and Modern Socialist Thought
2. Section 2: Critical Theories of Labour and Capitalist Technology
3. Section 3: ERTs’ Six Recuperative Moments
4. Cooperative Self-Determination, Recuperation, and Argentina’s ERTs: Looking Forward
Chapter 5. A Genealogy of Autogestión
1. Section 1: Autogestión and the Self-Determination of Productive Life
2. Section 2: Cooperatives, the Social and Solidarity Economy, and Autogestión
3. Autogestión and the Continuing Stream of Self-Determination
Part 3. The Consolidation of Argentina’s Empresas Recuperadas: Common Experiences, Challenges, and Social Transformations
Chapter 6. ‘Occupy, Resist, Produce’: Commonalities in the Lived Experiences of Recuperating Workplaces in Argentina (with Andrés Ruggeri)
1. Section 1: From Workplace Conflicts to Autogestión
2. Section 2: The Strategies and Tactics of ‘Occupy, Resist, Produce’
3. Re-appropriating Relevant Laws, Deploying Cooperative Values
Chapter 7. The Challenges of Autogestión and ERT Workers’ Responses
1. Section 1: Production Challenges
2. Section 2: An Ambivalent Relationship with the State
3. Section 3: Local and Transnational Solidarity Networks of Autogestión
4. Organising Between ERTs and the Community to Collectively Overcome Challenges
Chapter 8. Recuperating the Labour Process, Transforming Subjectivities: From Empleados to Compañeros and Trabajadores Autogestionados
1. Section 1: Cooperatively Working and Democratising the Shop
2. Section 2: Recuperating Cooperative Skills and Values, Informal Shop Floor Learning, and Transformed Subjectivities
3. Section 3: Recuperating Social Production for Social Wealth
4. Challenging ERTs’ ‘Dual Reality’
Part 4. Recuperating Autogestión
Chapter 9. Recuperating Autogestión, Prefiguring Alternatives: Some Possible Conclusions
1. On Workers’ Recuperations of Autogestión
2. The Conjunctural Realities of Argentina’s ERTs
3. Autogestión and Argentina’s ERTs
4. Revisiting ERTs’ ‘Dual Reality’
5. Revisiting ERTs’ Radical Social Innovations and Recuperative Moments
6. Revisiting the Definition of Argentina’s Empresas Recuperadas por sus Trabajadores
7. Closing Thoughts, Continued Openings
Appendix: Formal Interviews Conducted, Meetings Attended, and Cooperatives Visited
Glossary of Spanish and Other Foreign Terms and Phrases
Bibliography
Index
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