BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//swoogo.com//NONSGML kigkonsult.se iCalcreator 2.27.21// CALSCALE:GREGORIAN BEGIN:VEVENT UID:6f2ced5cf46f68b66a59f62942e8fd5a3214f1f1@swoogo.com DTSTAMP:20240329T160049Z DESCRIPTION:CASC/ANSER INTERDISCIPLINARY OPEN EVENT\n\nChair: Marcelo Vieta \, University of Toronto\n\nWORKERS TAKING OVER COMPANIES AND CONVERTING T HEM TO COOPERATIVES IN ARGENTINA: LESSONS FOR ECONOMIC JUSTICE AND THE SOC IAL AND SOLIDARITY ECONOMY\n\nThis session takes an in-depth look at the e mergence of Argentina’s worker-recuperated enterprises\, a workers’ occupy and self-management movement that surged at the turn of the millennium in the thick of the country’s neo-liberal crisis. To date\, over 16\,000 wor kers in Argentina have converted over 400 firms across its urban economy t o worker cooperatives. Engaging in a collective transnational dialogue\, t he presenters consider the lessons of the Argentine case for the struggle for economic justice in Black and marginalized communities\, for saving an d re-inventing jobs in light of the cyclical crises of neo-liberal capital ism\, and for expanding the social and solidarity economy via conversions of workplaces and other community spaces to cooperatives in the global Nor th.The session is inspired by the recent publication of Marcelo Vieta’s bo ok\, Workers’ Self-Management in Argentina: Contesting Neo-liberalism by O ccupying Companies\, Creating Cooperatives\, and Recuperating Autogestión (Brill\, 2020\, https://www.vieta.ca/newbook) [https://www.vieta.ca/newboo k].\n\nSPEAKERS:\n\n * Marcelo Vieta\, Assistant Professor in the Program i n Adult Education and Community Development and the Collaborative Program in Workplace Learning and Social Change at the Ontario Institute for Studi es in Education of the University of Toronto. Author of Workers’ Self-Mana gement in Argentina: Contesting Neo-liberalism by Occupying Companies\, Cr eating Cooperatives\, and Recuperating Autogestión (Brill\, 2020\, https:/ /www.vieta.ca/newbook) [https://www.vieta.ca/newboo].\n\n * Jessica Gordon- Nembhard\, Professor of Community Justice and Social Economic Development\ , Chair of the Department of Africana Studies\, and Director of the McNair Post-Baccalaureate Achievement Program at John Jay College\, City Univers ity of New York (CUNY)\n\n * Marina Sitrin\, Assistant Professor in the dep artment of Sociology at SUNY Binghamton\n\n DTSTART:20200604T200000Z DTEND:20200604T211500Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240329T160049Z LOCATION:Registration required - Virtual Conference links will be available 24 hours prior to session SEQUENCE:0 STATUS:CONFIRMED SUMMARY:E1 Workers Taking Over Companies and Converting them to Cooperative s in Argentina: Lessons for Economic Justice and the Social and Solidarity Economy TRANSP:OPAQUE X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:
CASC /ANSER Interdisciplinary Open Event
\n\nChair: Marce lo Vieta\, University of Toronto
\n\nWorkers Taking Over Com panies and Converting them to Cooperatives in Argentina: Lessons for Econo mic Justice and the Social and Solidarity Economy
\n\nThis session takes an in-depth look at the emergence of Argentina’s worker-recu perated enterprises\, a workers’ occupy and self-management movement that surged at the turn of the millennium in the thick of the country’s neo-lib eral crisis. To date\, over 16\,000 workers in Argentina have converted ov er 400 firms across its urban economy to worker cooperatives. Engaging in a collective transnational dialogue\, the presenters consider the lessons of the Argentine case for the struggle for economic justice in Black and m arginalized communities\, for saving and re-inventing jobs in light of the cyclical crises of neo-liberal capitalism\, and for expanding the social and solidarity economy via conversions of workplaces and other community s paces to cooperatives in the global North.The session is inspired by the r ecent publication of Marcelo Vieta’s book\, Workers’ Self-Management in Ar gentina: Contesting Neo-liberalism by Occupying Companies\, Creating Coope ratives\, and Recuperating Autogestión (Brill\, 2020\, https://www.vieta.ca/newbook).
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