Co-operative struggles : work conflicts in Argentina's new worker co-operatives / Denise Kasparian ; foreword by Julián Rebón ; translated by Ian Barnett.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kasparian, Denise, author.

Contributor:

Rebón, Julián, writer of foreword.

Barnett, Ian (Translator), translator.

Series:

Studies in critical social sciences ; Volume 203.

Studies in critical social sciences ; Volume 203

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Cooperative societies--Argentina.

Cooperative societies.

Labor policy--Argentina.

Labor policy.

Social conflict--Argentina.

Social conflict.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (260 pages)

Place of Publication:

Leiden, The Netherlands ; Boston : Brill, [2022]

Summary:

In Co-operative Struggles , Denise Kasparian expands the theoretical horizons regarding labour unrest by proposing new categories to make visible and conceptualize conflicts in the new worker co-operativism of the twenty-first century. br/> After the depletion of neoliberal reforms at the dawn of the twenty-first century in Argentina, co-operativism gained momentum, mainly due to the recuperation of enterprises by their workers and state promotion of co-operatives through social policies. These new co-operatives became actors not just in production but in social struggle. Their peculiarity lies in the fact that they shape a socio-productive form not structured on wage relations: workers are at the same time members of the organisations. Why, how and by what cleavages and groupings do these co-operative workers without bosses come into conflict?.

Contents:

List of Figures, Tables and Images

Acknowledgements

Foreword: The Democratisation of Conflict

Julián Rebón

Introduction

The Question of Work Conflicts in New Co-operatives

Dimensions of New Social Conflicts in Co-operative Socio-Productive Contexts

The Challenge of Comparing Paradigmatic but Non-Equivalent Experiences: Studying a Whole that Acts as a Whole

The Structure of the Book

1 Co-operatives 'Made in Argentina': The Process of Enterprise Recuperation by their Workers

The Socio-Genesis of the Processes of Enterprise Recuperation

The Evolution of Enterprise Recuperation Processes

2 Incubated Co-operatives: Co-operative Formation under the Argentina Works Programme

Social Schemes with Work Requirement: from Workfare to the Argentina Works Programme

The Mediation of Unemployed Workers' Organisations: Civil Associations, Productive Units and Co-operatives

The Dual Logic of the Argentina Works Programme's Socio-Genesis: Creating Jobs and Co-ordinating Local Politics

Induced Co-operatives? The Struggle of Unemployed Workers' Organisations

3 Keeping and Having a Job: A Milestone in Constitutive Conflicts

'Occupy, Resist, Produce'... and Have!

From 'Induction' to the 'Co-operative Without Brokers'

A Comparative Lens on Constitutive Conflicts

4 The Recuperated Enterprise and Social Power in Production

Recuperators, Activists and the 'Born and Bred'

Property Relations: Social Possession and Differential Appropriation of the Fruits of Labour

The Logic of Production and the Issue of Sustainability in Recuperated Enterprises

The Political Dimension: Between Self-Management and Delegation

Social Groupings and Potential Antagonisms: Opportunity Hoarding, Enterprise Projects and Work Generations

5 The Argentina Works Co-operative and State Power in Production

The Labour and Socio-Spatial Precarity of Argentina Works Programme Workers

Property Relations: Social Possession and Autonomy

The Logic of Production: Between Subsistence and Political Accumulation

The Political Dimension: State Power and Co-management

Social Groupings and Potential Antagonisms: State Officials, Co-operative Members and Activists

6 The Production of Co-operative Conflict

Board Removals: Conflicts over the Running and Expansion of the Productive Process

Regulations, Sanctions and Exclusions: from 'Founder Members' to 'Founderer Members'

"We Fought Over the River Module": The Conflict over Autonomous Work

Between Subsistence Consumption and Political Accumulation in the Social Organisation

A Comparative Lens

Conclusions

The New Twenty-First-Century Co-operativism and its Struggles Around Work

What Patterns of Conflicts Are There Without Bosses? Towards a Theory of Unrest in Worker Co-operatives

From Prelude to Present: A Toolbox for New Research Questions

Bibliographical References

Official Documents and Reports

Regulations

Statistical Sources

Cited Interviews

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

Other Format:

Print version: Kasparian, Denise Co-Operative Struggles: Work Conflicts in Argentina's New Worker Co-operatives

ISBN:

9789004468641

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9789004468641 DOI