Workers' Factory Takeovers and the Programme for Self-Managed Work: Towards an 'Institutionalisation' of Radical Forms of Non-Governmental Public Action in Argentina
Ana C Dinerstein
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Abstract
In the last decade many Argentine enterprises became bankrupt, inspiring thousands of workers to take them over and resume production by forming co-operatives. In 2004, the Programme for Self-Managed Work became the instrument by which the government 'institutionalised' the takeovers, de-politicising the radical aspects of workers' actions in exchange for financial and technical assistance in pursuit of workers' objectives of job preservation and self-managed work. The paper was given at the Policy & Politics International Conference 'Reconnecting Policy and Politics', 6-7 July 2006 - Bristol. The paper presents (i) preliminary findings from ongoing ESRC research project on 'The Movement of the Unemployed in Argentina' (RES-155 -25-0007) NGPA, LSE and (ii) findings from a previous research on social mobilisation and policy change in Argentina (2002-03).
About the author
Ana C Dinerstein [BA (Hons) Buenos Aires, MA and PhD (Warwick)] is a Lecturer in Political Sociology, Department of Social and Policy Sciences, University of Bath, UK. Her research focuses on the relationship between social and labour movements and state institutions and policy making in Latin America, with a particular focus on the transformation of labour Argentina.
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Contact: A.C.Dinerstein@bath.ac.uk|