Sobering The People's Hotel

Working for Justice in Argentina
1. Auflage 2022
ISBN: 978-1-4780-2286-2
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 272 Seiten

Katherine Sobering recounts the history of the Hotel Bauen, an iconic luxury hotel in Buenos Aires, detailing its twenty-first-century transformation from a privately owned business into a worker cooperative—one where decisions were made democratically, jobs were rotated, and all members were paid equally.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Sobering, Katherine

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Amerikanische Geschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments ix
Introduction 1
1. Recuperating the Hotel Bauen 19
2. Democracy at Work 47
3. Hospitality in Cooperation 73
4. Rotating Opportunity 96
5. The Politics of Equal Pay 120
6. The Activist Workplace 148
Conclusions 171
Epilogue: Surviving (Another) Crisis 181
Methodological Appendix 187
Notes 201
References 227
Index 253

Über Autor(innen)

Katherine Sobering is Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of North Texas and coauthor of The Ambivalent State: Police-Criminal Collusion at the Urban Margins.