Repositori URV

Identifier: TDX:1071

Handle: https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11797/TDX1071

Authors:
Pizzi, Alejandro Daniel

Abstract:
Since the economic crisis in Argentina (2001) to the present, a phenomenon of recovery came across the country started by the workers of bankrupted companies. These worker’s companies articulate a social movement root-based in the argentine working class movement and sustain in the market through collective strategies of self-management, as legal work cooperatives. The thesis exposes findings related to the diverse strategies of collective action favoring self-management. We sustain this as a response to the weak points of the formal capitalist economy and that there is a positive relation between the degree of the social movement’s political strength and the possibilities of articulating an economic/productive integration space among this recovered companies (and other traditional cooperatives) in which self-management can settle. To which, we analyze the movement’s organizational evolution, its repertoire of collective action, and its mobilization and resources structure, along the interpretation frames of its social and political dynamics. Also there are at display the findings related to the organizational forms by which the workers support his strategies of selfmanagement on. This way, there is an analysis of the both organizational Alternatives and typical orientations of their collective actions, in the economic / productive and political frame, characterizing this universe of self managed companies. The conceptual making of these elements allows the understanding of the complexities of this organization’s type of dynamics, based on a double logic: associative / political, linked to his dimension as a social movement, and economical, derivative of its productive company character. Elaborating these elements allows understanding the complex dynamics of these orga