About processes of self-management and working recollectivization in todays’ Argentina

Abstract

This paper presents a characterization of the process of working self-management that occurred in Argentina from 1990 to 2006, focusing specially on “Companies Recovered by Workers”. The analysis employs a number of analytical dimensions that examine this process with reference to previous self-management experiences. We argue that these experiences can be studied as working re-collectivization processes, whose beginning and development is situated in scenarios in which deep processes of social, economic and political un-collectivization are occurring. These aforementioned dimensions related to the process of re-collectivization assume the exposition of arguments around the following interpretative elements: the reconstruction of a collective working space and experience, which recovered part of the wage-earning history of workers; the reconfiguration of sociability links inside the productive space; and the relation with social and union organizations which represent the interests of the workers of the recovered companies.