Workers Management and the Organization of Work

In this talk I want to examine the organization of work in two recuperated enterprises in Argentina. The latter refers to a group of enterprises that have been appropriated by their workers and are run as self-managed cooperatives. There are about 200 of them, employing around 10,000. Some of these enterprises are doing very well and some are just generating barely the necessary to cover costs. Some have acquired the property of the business, in general through a process of expropriation that operates on a logic parallel to that of eminent domain, and most operate on a legal limbo where workers have the de facto control of the place but not the de jure ownership.