Workers' Self-Management in Argentina

‎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