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

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In Workers Self-Management in Argentina, Marcelo Vieta homes in on the history, consolidation, and socio-political dimensions of Argentinas empresas recuperadas por sus trabajadores (worker-recuperated enterprises), a worker-led company occupation movement that has surged since the turn-of-the-millennium and the countrys neo-liberal crisis. ‎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