"In Workers' Self-Management in Argentina, Marcelo Vieta homes in on the emergence and consolidation of Argentina's empresas recuperadas por sus trabajadores (ERTs, worker-recuperated enterprises), a workers' occupy movement that surged at the turn-of-the-millennium in the thick of the country's...

Since the recent crisis, the resilience of worker cooperatives has not gone unnoticed in Europe (Cecop, 2012). In France this renewed interest in worker cooperatives has led to a new law in 2013 promoting this model of enterprise based on democratic governance. The legal status of worker...

Research questions: How are management agreements in the German hotel market configured as reaction to the growing uncertainty? Which adaptations are made to management agreements in Germany according to their uncertainty reducing effect? Is a higher level of flexibility negotiated into...

Worker cooperatives are enterprises owned by employees who are sharing the decision taking. This form of enterprises is an old one in Europe but the recent crisis has underlined their capacity of resilience. Furthermore, worker cooperatives are non purchasable and non relocatable. So, it has...

Introduction -- Historical materialism and democratic firm management -- A system of producer cooperatives -- Democratic firm management and socialism -- More advantages of a system of democratic firms -- Unemployment in a system of producer cooperatives -- Democratic socialism and income...

Are high-ability individuals more likely to quit egalitarian regimes? Does the threat of exit by talented individuals restrict the redistributive capacity of democratic organizations? This paper revisits that long-standing debate by analyzing the interplay between compensation structure and quit...

Different theoretical explanations suggest that worker-managed firms (WMFs) are prone to failure in competitive environments. Using a long panel of Uruguayan firms, the author presents new evidence on firm survival comparing WMFs and conventional firms. Excluding microenterprises and controlling...

La crisis capitalista y la lucha de clases / Antonio Elías y Julio C. Gambina -- Ocho tesis sobre el neoliberalismo (1973-2013) / José Francisco Puello-Socarrás -- Los factores compensatorios de la crisis en América Latina : notas para el análisis / José Luis Rodríguez -- ¿Hacia dónde...

As mudanças no mundo do trabalho e o ressurgimento do cooperativismo -- As fábricas recuperadas no Brasil : uma revisão geral -- As fábricas recuperadas : a ida a campo -- A experiência internacional de recuperação de empresas -- Considerações finais

A worker co-operative is a firm that is owned and managed by those who work in it. This paper provides a selective review of research in economics on worker cooperatives. It concentrates on the volatility of earnings and employment in the co-ops compared with conventional capitalist firms; on...

Selbstverwaltete Betriebe bilden in der Schweiz und vielen anderen Ländern einen Organisationstypus an der Schnittstelle zwischen wirtschaftlicher und zivilgesellschaftlicher Sphäre, und sie sind ein Spezialfall der Sozialunternehmung. Ihr wirtschaftlicher Charakter ergibt sich daraus, dass...

We provide the first econometric study of efficiency for a member of the Mondragon group of worker cooperatives. Eroski is a retail distribution chain and, most unusually, there are two distinct types of hypermarkets: (i) cooperatives with significant employee ownership and voice; and (ii) GESPAs...