The Italian Road to Creating Worker Cooperatives from Worker Buyouts: Italy's Worker-Recuperated Enterprises and the Legge Marcora Framework

Vieta, Marcelo

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“…As mentioned above, in countries like Argentina and Italy (Ruggeri and Vieta , Vieta ), new cases of recovered factories have continued to appear in recent years, mainly during the worsening of the economic crisis. Therefore, it is necessary to highlight two points.…”

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confidence: 98%

“…Among the European countries, the example that stands out is Italy. According to Vieta (), worker‐recuperated enterprises have mostly emerged from worker buyouts (WBO) in the beginning of the 1980s, as a response from the workers due to the rising unemployment rate caused by the restructuring and downsizing of the companies and the closing of the majority of the industrial sector during the 1970s and 1980s. The recuperation process was strongly encouraged by Legge Marcora (Marcora Law), which created a favorable situation for the transformation of at least 257 businesses into workers’ cooperatives, which, in result, created around 9300 new positions.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…ESOP is a system that the employees can buy stocks of their own company, allowing them to share ownership with other stockholders. Generally, the ESOPs do not have the same structure as workers’ cooperatives and the workers do not always necessarily participate directly in the management of the company (Vieta ).…”

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confidence: 99%

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Is Self‐management Possible? A Study on the Recovered Factories in Brazil

Pires

2017

Ann Public Coop Econ

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The scenario outlined by the productive restructuring associated with the economic crisis and other changes in the Brazilian economy in the 1990s led to the bankruptcy of many businesses and resulted in an increase in unemployment and uncertainty in work relations. Thus, the workers sought other forms of survival, including associated work. Some groups began to organize themselves with the aim of collectively assuming the management of bankrupted factories in order to keep their jobs. The first 'recovered factories' appeared in Brazil. In this context, some supporting institutions were also born, in order to support these experiences, as well as other initiatives within the cooperative and social economy. Our proposal is to make a general analysis of the current situation of the recovered factories in Brazil, discussing whether and how the values of cooperativism and self-management are present in these factories today.1 The social economy brings together different experiences under cooperativism, such as work and production cooperatives, credit cooperatives, solidarity fairs, exchange clubs and associations. Since 2003, we have had a national office in Brazil in charge of the social economy. 2 ANTEAG ended its activities, while Unisol remains a major supporter organ of the social economy in Brazil.

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Is Self‐management Possible? A Study on the Recovered Factories in Brazil

Pires

2017

Ann Public Coop Econ

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“…Italy (Belloc, 2017;Tortia, 2018;Vieta, 2015), Spain (Gritzas & Kavoulakos, 2016;Stervinou et al, 2015), and Greece (Kokkinidis, 2015).…”

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“…Yet, while the occurrence of worker‐owned/managed companies is deeply interwoven with their respective sociogeographical contexts, so far, they have mainly been analysed from sociopolitical perspectives (e.g.Azzellini, 2016; Larrabure, 2017; Vieta, 2015). A spatial perspective could expand the knowledge on the reciprocal influence of these companies' emergence as well as their actions and the sociogeographical contexts they are embedded in.…”

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Transformative perspectives on labour geographies – The role of labour agency in processes of socioecological transformations

Grenzdörffer

2021

Geography Compass

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Both geographical research on socioecological transformations and labour geography see decisive deficiencies in current capitalist structures centred around growth. To highlight possibilities of economic pluralism, both fields analyse diverse economic spaces within, next to and beyond capitalist structures. A basic assumption in transformation perspectives is that economic structures are not fixed, but can be transformed by people as economic actors. This corresponds to the concept of 'labour agency' from labour geography, i.e. that workers as active agents are able to (re)shape the structures they are embedded in.Despite those common perspectives, these threads of research coexist without having been intertwined. With a focus on wage labour, this paper addresses the potential for an integrative perspective illustrated by the example of companies owned/managed by workers. In charge of their own skills, time and resources, workers can actively break with prevalent market logics, which incentivise trading (human) resources at the lowest price possible. By rejecting core dynamics of capitalist structures, these companies illustrate the workers' potential key role in processes of socioecological transformations. Thus, the derived objectives of this paper are (1) to analyse and accentuateThis is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs License, which permits use and distribution in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited, the use is non-commercial and no modifications or adaptations are made.

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Co-operatives and Socialism: The Promises and Contradictions of a System of Worker Ownership

Jervis

2021

Political Philosophy and Public Purpose

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The Italian Road to Creating Worker Cooperatives from Worker Buyouts: Italy's Worker-Recuperated Enterprises and the Legge Marcora Framework

Cited by 18 publications

References 23 publications

Is Self‐management Possible? A Study on the Recovered Factories in Brazil

Is Self‐management Possible? A Study on the Recovered Factories in Brazil

Transformative perspectives on labour geographies – The role of labour agency in processes of socioecological transformations

Co-operatives and Socialism: The Promises and Contradictions of a System of Worker Ownership

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