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RODRIGUES RAMALHO, Ramon. Paths of Self-Management: Conceptions of the Recovery of Enterprises. Estud. sociol [online]. 2022, vol.40, n.120, pp.865-893.  Epub 17-Mar-2023. ISSN 2448-6442.  https://doi.org/10.24201/es.2022v40n120.2219.

Abstract: This article analyzes the Argentine phenomenon of Worker-Recovered Enterprises (ERTs), focusing on the political disputes between two conceptions of recovery. Our aim is to analyze the tensions that Argentinean recovered enterprises experience, by discussing the emerging ambivalences between their workers. To understand the disputes between Argentinean ERT workers over the purpose they attribute to their enterprise, we explore the trajectory of IMPA, an emblematic metallurgical company in Buenos Aires. Our research is based on the ethnographic work undertaken for a period of three years (2011-2013) at IMPA. We will show that these disputes determine the way each ERT copes with its tensions and establishes its relations with the market or the state.

Palabras llave : Worker-Recovered Enterprises; political disputes; IMPA; ethnography; self-management.