The right to work in Argentina : job policy and economic rights in a worker cooperative

This thesis provides an exploration of an empresa recuperada por sus trabajadores (worker recovered enterprise, ERT) case study in Argentina in an effort to understand their impact to employment retention during economic crisis. Part of the larger social upheaval resulting from failed economic liberalization during the 1990s, ERTs attempt to implement an alternative economic development strategy through self-management of previously private enterprises. This thesis explores one ERT located in Florencio Varela, Argentina, in an effort to understand the impact the ERTs have in local communities in terms of employment retention and social capital production. Lastly, the analysis examines the role that ERTs play in both the development and dissemination of an economic human rights norm. This case provides an insight into the larger ERT movement in Argentina and provides recommendations to both ERTs and policymakers in terms of how to promote the sustainability of these enterprises.

Name thesis:degree_name

Latin American Studies

Level thesis:degree_level

Thesis

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

Latin American Studies

Year

2015

Author dc:creator

• Kent, Patricia

Contributors dc:contributor

• Isaac, Claudia
• Stanley, Bill
• Cordova, Teresa

• ERTs
• empresas recuperadas
• Argentina
• economic development
• unemployment
• norm dissemination
• social capital
• economic human rights
• human rights
• International Covenant on Economic
• Social and Cultural Rights

Language dc:language

English

Repository record dc:identifier

https://digitalrepository.unm.edu/ltam_etds/17

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:digitalrepository.unm.edu:ltam_etds-1016