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Case summary No.4

‘Empresas Recuperadas’: Argentina’s Recovered Factory Movement

Published on 31 March 2020

The ‘empresas recuperadas’ or worker-recovered enterprise movement in Argentina emerged as a response to the country’s sovereign debt crisis of 2001, with workers fighting for their right to run abandoned factories. Central to the movement is an ethos of solidarity, with worker-owned enterprises based on horizontal authority, collective decision-making and shared returns from the business.

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Thorpe, J.; Cannon, M. and Emili, S. (2019) '"Empresas Recuperadas": Argentina's Recovered Factory Movement', Case summary No.4, Brighton: IDS

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Mariah Cannon

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Silvia Emili

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