De la recuperación a la consolidación: Análisis y perspectiva del trabajo y sus formas de organización en procesos de recuperación de empresas. Argentina, 2000-2010

Thesis

Authorship

DEUX MARZI, MARIA VICTORIA

Date

01/01/2015

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This thesis describes and analyses business recovery processes developed in the period 2000 - 2010, defined as the processes established by the confluence of bankruptcy or closure of an existing company and the decision of workers to continue with the activity, assuming themselves the management of the economic enterprise. In particular, the thesis aims to characterize different configurations of the working regimes that have been built, and in which are held, business recovery processes, ident... This thesis describes and analyses business recovery processes developed in the period 2000 - 2010, defined as the processes established by the confluence of bankruptcy or closure of an existing company and the decision of workers to continue with the activity, assuming themselves the management of the economic enterprise. In particular, the thesis aims to characterize different configurations of the working regimes that have been built, and in which are held, business recovery processes, identifying the vectors of continuity and rupture with the working regime of the previous enterprise. Working regime is defined as an arrangement that ralate each worker to his own activity, to the objects and the product of collective work, the capacities of action and decision and to other workers, under certain social relations of production and reproduction. For the purposes of this thesis, the working regime is a theoretical-methodological device that allows us to understand and characterize business recovery processes, in the interaction between institutions and work practices that comprise these processes. This regime is defined and shaped from the decisions of workers and, at the same time, a certain combination of social conditions that have made a particular way of working and being a worker. Thus, the thesis reconstructs the current labour regime in two business recovery processes (one of them settled in the Rosario City and the other in Great Buenos Aires) from the analysis of two specific dimensions: i) institutions that regulate and organize work; ii) participation practices related to the organization and management of the company, understanding the practices as a combination of behaviours, performances and interactions. These dimensions are a complex unit that will account for the configuration of labour process as well as their similarities and differences of the current working regime in the previous enterprise. Also, the working regime is the hub from which both processes are reconstructed, analysing comparatively socio-political and economical conditions that affect and turn ut to be result of different configurations of working regimes. After a decade of the first companies recovery is particularly important for our investigation analyse and characterize processes that have achieved economic and organizational stability, and consequently have gone beyond the recovery period (incipient foundation stage and recovery). Thus, the thesis question and focuses on the consolidation phase of the process, understood as a moment in which the production, employment and income gain relative regularly (even if its prospects may be uncertain), routines and practises are and institutionalize, while a particular course of the organization is affirmed as predominantly. From this characterization, we identify and analyse the vectors of continuity and rupture between the previous working regime and the one that emerges after the recovery process. This comparative analysis seeks to explore the nature and scope of changes of working configurations in business recovery, reflecting particularly on whether the new configurations represent socially different working experiences. This question is especially relevant taking into account that the thesis is about to the construction of social and solidary economy, considering analysed processes reference to and of this field. This is based on the ascertainment that the social and solidarity economy in Argentina was simultaneously moved and co-constructed by the proliferation of business recovery processes by early 2000.