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Winning the right to work through solidarity: The Argentine workers’ self-management movement

Year: 2026

Type: article

Abstract: This article examines Argentina’s worker-recovered enterprises ( Empresas Recuperadas por sus Trabajadores , ERTs) movement, which emerged after the 2001 economic crisis, as a bottom-up construction of the right to work under neoliberalism. The ERTs uniquely link the struggle for the right to work with worker self-management amid widespread unemployment and precarity. Drawing on field research conducted in six ERTs and interviews with academics from the Open Faculty Programme ( Programa Facultad Abierta , PFA), the study argues that the right to work is not merely a legal norm but a collective social practice built from below.

Source: Economic and Industrial Democracy

DOI: 10.1177/0143831x261438626

Author: Deniz Gürler

Language: English

Topic: Social and Economic Solidarity

Subfield: Sociology and Political Science

Field: Social Sciences

Domain: Social Sciences

SDGs: Decent work and economic growth, Reduced inequalities, Peace, justice, and strong institutions

Open Access status: hybrid

Estimated APC paid: $3,650

Funder: Türkiye Bilimsel ve Teknolojik Araştırma Kurumu