Workers' Self-Management in Argentina : Contesting Neo-Liberalism by Occupying Companies, Creating Cooperatives, and Recuperating Autogestin

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.