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Sin Patron: Stories from Argentina's Worker-Run Factories
The worker-run factories of Argentina offer an inspirational example of a struggle for social change that has achieved a real victory against corporate globalization.
Lavaca is an Argentine editorial and activist collective. Naomi Klein is an award-winning journalist and author of No Logo.Avi Lewis is an author and filmmaker. Klein and Lewis co-produced The Take, a film abo...more
Lavaca is an Argentine editorial and activist collective. Naomi Klein is an award-winning journalist and author of No Logo.Avi Lewis is an author and filmmaker. Klein and Lewis co-produced The Take, a film abo...more
Paperback, 320 pages
Published
May 1st 2007
by Haymarket Books
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I was given this book by a friend, a sociologist writing a MA Thesis about cooperatives and capitalist-to-worker owned companies. He was also born and raised in Argentina. Explains to the phenomenon of closing capitalist firms converted into cooperatives that not only survive, but thrive! Good if you're interested in social movements, root initiatives and other of the kind.
Using the recuperated Forja factory as a microcosm of the larger Argentine piquetero movement, author Naomi Klein has done...more
Using the recuperated Forja factory as a microcosm of the larger Argentine piquetero movement, author Naomi Klein has done...more
A excellent first hand account of several of the worker's cooperatives in Argentina that took over their work places and started running things when the economy tanked. What several of them found out is that the biggest costs in the old system were paying for management bonuses and expenses. Really interesting experiments in participatory democracy and what ordinary people can do when handed the opportunity to organize themselves.
Typos galore but I have a much better understanding of workers' rights now.
this is a a very interesting story about the ocuppation of bankrupt factories that are restarted by the workers it is a bit repetitive though
Some interesting stories -- I'm interested in how generalizable the model of worker-owned collectives are.
This topic deserves a better book. Maybe I will write it.
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