Dario Azzellini, Marcelo Vieta

Commoning Labour and Democracy at Work

When Workers Take Over

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book investigates the return of workers' self-management in recent decades as responses to recurring neoliberal crises. This book will be of interest to researchers across the fields of development studies, labour studies, political economy, sociology of development, sociology of work, and political science.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 330
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. August 2025
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 661g
• ISBN-13: 9780367442224
• ISBN-10: 0367442221
• Artikelnr.: 73482333

Autorenporträt

Dario Azzellini, PhD in Political Science and in Sociology, is Visiting Research Fellow at the ILR School, Cornell University, USA. Azzellini's over 20 books, 11 films, and more than 100 journal articles and book chapters focus on labour, self-management, sustainability and just transition, social transformation, and global political economy, many of which have been translated into various languages. He is also the founder of the multilingual website workerscontrol.net. Follow his work at www.azzellini.net Marcelo Vieta, PhD in Social and Political Thought, is Associate Professor and Chair of the Department of Leadership, Higher and Adult Education and co-director of the Centre for Learning, Social Economy and Work at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education of the University of Toronto, Canada. He has published award-winning books and dozens of articles and book chapters on workers' self-management, economic democracy, cooperativism, and the social and solidarity economy. Follow his work at www.vieta.ca

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Recuperating Workplaces and Community Spaces Part 1. Setting
the Conceptual Stage: Recuperating Productive Life, Democratizing Work 1.
Class Still Matters: Autogestión, Living Labour, the Moral Economy of Work,
and the Labour Commons 2. A Conceptual Review: Workers' Self-Management,
Workers' Control, and Autogestión 3. A Historical Perspective: Key Debates
in Autogestión Part 2. Mapping the Experiences of Worker-Recuperated
Enterprises in Latin America 4. 'Occupy, Resist, Produce': Argentina's
Worker-Recuperated Enterprises Set the Stage 5. Between the Social and
Solidarity Economy and the State: Worker-Recuperated Enterprises in Brazil
and Uruguay 6. Cooperatives, Co-Management, and Workers' Councils:
Worker-Recuperated Enterprises in Venezuela Part 3. Mapping the Experiences
of Worker-Recuperated Enterprises in Europe and the Rest of the World 7.
Labour-Conflict Conversions Amid Wider Cooperative Movements:
Worker-Recuperated Enterprises in Italy and France 8. Workers' Responses to
Rising Austerity and Social Challenges: Worker-Recuperated Enterprises in
the Rest of Europe 9. Inklings of a Larger Global Movement:
Worker-Recuperated Enterprises in the Rest of the World Part 4.
Worker-Recuperated Enterprises as Labour Commons: Contradictions and
Possibilities 10. Recuperating the Commons 11. Commonalities in the Lived
Experiences of Worker-Recuperated Enterprises 12. The Dual Realities of
Worker-Recuperated Enterprises 13. Worker-Recuperated Enterprises and
Workplace Democracy as Labour Commons