2014
DOI: 10.1177/0038038514539064
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Workers’ Self-management, Recovered Companies and the Sociology of Work

Abstract: We analyse how far Argentina’s worker-recovered companies (WRCs) have sustained themselves and their principles of equity and workers’ self-management since becoming widespread following the country’s 2001–2 economic crisis. Specialist Spanish-language sources, survey data and documents are analysed through four key sociological themes. We find that the number of WRCs has increased in Argentina, and that they represent a viable production model. Further, they have generally maintained their central principles … Show more

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“…Two types of self‐management came into practice and were widely discussed among activists in the crisis period: self‐management as an attempt to continue running companies under closure—also known in the literature as “worker‐recovered companies” (WRCs) (Ozarow and Croucher )—and setting up new workers' co‐operatives. How do these initiatives fit in the broader context just described, where workers are pushed out of the wage relation?…”
Section: Labor Activism Outside Workplaces and Workers' Self‐managementmentioning
confidence: 99%
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“…Two types of self‐management came into practice and were widely discussed among activists in the crisis period: self‐management as an attempt to continue running companies under closure—also known in the literature as “worker‐recovered companies” (WRCs) (Ozarow and Croucher )—and setting up new workers' co‐operatives. How do these initiatives fit in the broader context just described, where workers are pushed out of the wage relation?…”
Section: Labor Activism Outside Workplaces and Workers' Self‐managementmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…In addition, there are suggestions that self‐management can offer a reliable way of re‐entering a secure wage‐relation at times of crisis. Studies of WRCs in Argentina (Ozarow and Croucher ) and of three co‐operatives in Greece (Kokkinidis ) argue that these enterprises can be successful in becoming economically viable while living up to their principles of horizontality, solidarity, work stability, equality of pay, community embeddedness, and breaking “the circuit of capital” (Ozarow and Croucher , 1,002).…”
Section: Labor Activism Outside Workplaces and Workers' Self‐managementmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…There is extensive literature on WRCs. The attention of the authors has focused on workers' experience of management, control of the labour process and new forms of industrial relations within the factories (Aiziczon, 2009;Deledicque and Moser, 2006); politics and experiences of resistance and mobilisation strategies (Picchetti, 2002;Fajn, 2003;Meyer and Chaves, 2008); workers' subjectivity (Fajn, 2003;Shukaitis, 2010); legalities and politicalities (Carpintero et al, 2002;Martínez and Vocos, 2002;Echaide, 2006;Vietta and Ruggieri, 2009), the relation between WRCs and the market (Atzeni and Ghigliani, 2007); and WRCs and the state policy (Dinerstein, 2007;Upchurch et al, 2014;Ozarow and Croucher, 2014).…”
Section: The Factories and The Workers: Hope And Self-managementmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…In the first case of occupations and recovery, the events forced workers to act quickly. In others, the occupation and recovery became a logical direction to take, drawing from the experience of previous occupations (see Ozarow and Croucher, 2014).…”
Section: The Factories and The Workers: Hope And Self-managementmentioning
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