The people's hotel : working for justice in Argentina / Katherine Sobering.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Sobering, Katherine, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

B.A.U.E.N. Hotel (Buenos Aires, Argentina).

Employee ownership--Argentina--History--21st century.

Employee ownership.

Hotels--Argentina--Buenos Aires.

Hotels.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xi, 260 pages) : illustrations

Place of Publication:

Durham : Duke University Press, 2022.

Summary:

"In 2001 Argentina experienced a massive economic crisis: businesses went bankrupt, unemployment spiked, and nearly half the population fell below the poverty line. In the midst of the crisis, Buenos Aires' iconic twenty-story Hotel Bauen quietly closed its doors, forcing long-time hospitality workers out of their jobs. Rather than leaving the luxury hotel vacant, a group of former employees occupied the property and kept it open. In The People's Hotel, Katherine Sobering recounts the history of the Hotel Bauen, detailing its transformation from a privately owned business into a worker cooperative-one where decisions were made democratically, jobs were rotated, and all members were paid equally. Combining ethnographic and archival research with her own experiences as a volunteer worker at the hotel, Sobering examines how the Bauen cooperative grew and, against all odds, successfully kept the hotel open for nearly two decades. Highlighting successes and innovations alongside the many challenges that these workers faced, Sobering presents a vivid portrait of efforts to address inequality and reorganize work in a capitalist economy."-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Recuperating the Hotel Bauen

Democracy at Work

Hospitality in Cooperation

Rotating Opportunity

The Politics of Equal Pay

The Activist Workplace.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Print version: Sobering, Katherine. People's hotel.

ISBN:

9781478022862

1478022868

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.