Learning in Struggle: Argentina’s New Worker Cooperatives as Transformative Learning Organizations

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dc.contributor.authorVieta, Marcelo
dc.date.accessioned2016-04-19T02:16:43Z
dc.date.available2016-04-19T02:16:43Z
dc.date.issued2015-06
dc.descriptionThis case study delves into the nexus between workers’ conversions of troubled firms in Argentina into worker cooperatives (empreseas recuperadas por sus trabajadores, or ERTs), the processes of learning new cooperative skills and values through struggle, and the subsequent transformations of communities. To do so, the study deploys research findings from workplace ethnographies and in-depth interviews at four ERT case studies, and shows how transformations of employees to self-managed workers; troubled firms into worker cooperatives; and the social, cultural, and economic revitalization of communities catalyzed by ERTs are rooted simultaneously in inter-cooperative and intra-cooperative informal learning dynamics. A theoretical framework combining class-struggle analysis and workplace and social action learning approaches helps clarify how this informal “learning in struggle” ultimately makes ERTs transformative learning organizations for workers, organizations, and communities. This case study was presented at CASC 2015 in Ottawa; slides are attached. The article synthesizing the results of the case study is published in the following journal: Vieta, M. (2014). Learning in Struggle: Argentina’s New Worker Cooperatives as Transformative Learning Organizations. Relations Industrielles/Industrial Relations, 69(1), 186-218; and is accessible via the link in the URI section above.en_US
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dc.identifier.urihttp://www.erudit.org/revue/ri/2014/v69/n1/1024212ar.pdf?vue=resume
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10587/1738
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherMeasuring the Co-operative Difference Research Networken_US
dc.subject.se-space-enterprise-enCo-operativesen_US
dc.subject.se-space-enterprise-enWorker/Labour Co-operativesen_US
dc.subject.se-space-enterprise-enPrivate/Investor-owned Companiesen_US
dc.subject.se-space-enterprise-frCoopérativesen_US
dc.subject.se-space-enterprise-frCoopératives de travailen_US
dc.subject.se-space-enterprise-frCompagnies privées / détenues par les investisseursen_US
dc.subject.sespace-geographic-enOutside Canadaen_US
dc.subject.sespace-geographic-enLatin America & the Caribbeanen_US
dc.subject.sespace-geographic-frHors du Canadaen_US
dc.subject.sespace-geographic-frAmérique latine et Caraïbesen_US
dc.subject.sespace-populations-enUrbanen_US
dc.subject.sespace-populations-frUrbainesen_US
dc.subject.sespace-research-enMeasuring the Co-operative Difference Research Network (2010-2015)en_US
dc.subject.sespace-research-enConference of the Canadian Association for Studies in Co-operation (CASC)en_US
dc.subject.sespace-research-frRéseau de recherche pour mesurer la différence coopérative (2010-2015)en_US
dc.subject.sespace-research-frConférence de l'Association canadienne pour les études en coopération (ACÉC)en_US
dc.subject.sespace-sector-enManufacturingen_US
dc.subject.sespace-sector-frFabricationen_US
dc.subject.sespace-theme-enAlternative Economic Theory / Co-operative Theoryen_US
dc.subject.sespace-theme-enBusiness Development & Financing, Organizational Sustainability, Business Successionen_US
dc.subject.sespace-theme-enDemocracy & Participationen_US
dc.subject.sespace-theme-enGovernance, Management, Leadershipen_US
dc.subject.sespace-theme-enSocial Justice & Socio-Political Transformationen_US
dc.subject.sespace-theme-frThéorie économique alternative / Théorie de coopérationen_US
dc.subject.sespace-theme-frDéveloppement des affaires et financement, efficacité organisationnelle, succession d’entrepriseen_US
dc.subject.sespace-theme-frDémocratie et participationen_US
dc.subject.sespace-theme-frGouvernance, gestion, leadershipen_US
dc.subject.sespace-theme-frTransformation de la justice sociale et socio-politiqueen_US
dc.titleLearning in Struggle: Argentina’s New Worker Cooperatives as Transformative Learning Organizationsen_US
dc.typeConference Presentation / Paperen_US
dc.typePrésentation d’un colloque / article lors 'dun colloqueen_US
dc.typeConference Presentation / Paperen_US
dc.typePrésentation d’un colloque / article lors 'dun colloqueen_US
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