From Managed Employees to Self-Managed Workers: The Transformations of Labour at Argentina’s Worker-Recuperated Enterprises

Vieta, Marcelo

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“…In both of the cases described the adoption of cooperative and democratic subjectivities occurred gradually, alongside and enabled by, an emergent organisational focus and form (see also Cornwell, 2012;Vieta, 2012). New members were not, in other words, simply inducted into an "objective structure [already] imbued with meaning" (Benford and Hunt, 1994: 491).…”

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“…I add to these articles by exploring democracy as an interconnected praxis of values, organisational form and daily practice, focusing specifically on how this interconnection challenges degeneration. As such the paper contributes to limited literature exploring the interconnection between democracy and degeneration (Bakaikoa, Errasti and Begiristain, 2004;Vieta, 2012;Meira, 2014;Storey, Basterretxea and Salaman, 2014), adding perspectives from small UK worker cooperatives that empirically challenge the degeneration thesis.…”

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Challenging the Degeneration Thesis: the Role of Democracy in Worker Cooperatives?

Langmead¹

2017

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This paper uses data collected through written narratives, focus groups and participant observation in three small UK worker cooperatives to investigate the role of democracy in maintaining cooperatives' dual social-economic characteristic and resisting degeneration. More specifically, it adds to limited empirical literature countering the degeneration thesis by arguing that ongoing processes of individual-collective alignment, understood as central to the practice of democracy, help cooperatives to: balance varying and conflicting needs and aims; challenge the assumption underpinning the degeneration thesis; and transform degenerative "risks" into creative and productive spaces where new meanings and practices can be formed.

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Challenging the Degeneration Thesis: the Role of Democracy in Worker Cooperatives?

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2017

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“…Despite the fact that WREs epitomize alternative organizational forms for academics (Parker, Cheney, Fournier and Land, 2014) and have been subjected to a growing number of inquiries from sociologists and organizational scholars (Atzeni, 2012;Vieta, 2012), relatively little is known about the activities undertaken by these scholars -generally referred to as 'extensionistas' in Spanish -in the production and maintenance of these organizations, beyond a report that describes their ten years of activities (Programa Facultad Abierta, 2012).…”

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“…To address this question, we rely on prior studies of the WREs Vieta, 2012) as well as recent debates about the critical performativity concept Fleming and Banerjee, 2016;Schaefer and Wickert, 2016).…”

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Supporting alternative organizations? Exploring scholars’ involvement in the performativity of worker-recuperated enterprises

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This is the accepted version of the paper.This version of the publication may differ from the final published version. performativity' concept that we define as scholars' subversive interventions that can involve the production of new subjectivities, the constitution of new organizational models and/or the bridging of these models to current social movements. Our results uncover the multiple roles of academics in relation to these three facets and highlight the key interactions of these roles. Permanent repository linkIn so doing, our analysis advances prior studies of WREs by clarifying how academics can support alternative organizations while offering a renewed conceptualization of critical performativity as a multifaceted process through which academics and workers interact.

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“…During this era, SSE was conceptualised as part of a much broader project, known as justicialismo, in which the idea of a third way refers to Peron's personal vision of politics, as neither capitalism nor communism (Vieta, 2012). Nonetheless, what is a matter of fact is that support for rural and consumer cooperatives were included in the two five-year economic plans in 1946 and 1952 (Levín and Verbeke, 1997), but as a means to alleviate social needs for working people rather than an explicit backing of the SSE.…”

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Social and Solidarity Economy in a Neoliberal Context: Transformative or Palliative? The Case of an Argentinean Worker Cooperatives

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2017

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Neoliberalisation process was imposed worldwide and it made many grassroots responses emerge, which many can be conceptualised as part of the Social and Solidarity Economy (SSE). Within this field, worker co-operatives appear as an option to mainly safeguard employment and earn a living. Several cases have been documented about worker co-operatives as a way to develop impoverished areas or vulnerable populations. However, co-operatives in many cases appear as a second best employment option during turmoil, rather than as an alternative to mainstream economy, which ultimately is the cause of poverty and vulnerability. This paper seeks to widen social economic literature and explores the tension inherent in the concept of SSE, namely whether it should be seen as an alternative to capitalism or a means of ameliorating its worst effects. Although this tension has been minimised in the literature, by introducing the case of an Argentine workers' cooperative, this research illustrates how these two antagonistic discourses coexist within the organisation.

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From Managed Employees to Self-Managed Workers: The Transformations of Labour at Argentina’s Worker-Recuperated Enterprises

Cited by 17 publications

References 9 publications

Challenging the Degeneration Thesis: the Role of Democracy in Worker Cooperatives?

Challenging the Degeneration Thesis: the Role of Democracy in Worker Cooperatives?

Supporting alternative organizations? Exploring scholars’ involvement in the performativity of worker-recuperated enterprises

Social and Solidarity Economy in a Neoliberal Context: Transformative or Palliative? The Case of an Argentinean Worker Cooperatives

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