Abstract
Company recovery is a practice developed by workers who, in the imminence of becoming unemployed, negotiate or fight for access to the means of production of bankrupting companies, and start to manage them collectively, guided by the principles of self-management. Nevertheless, how to assess self-management in worker-recovered companies (WRCs)? The criteria selected by a bibliographic review on the concept of self-management were used in dealing with the data collected by the Brazilian WRCs national mapping. A multi-criteria decision support tool was used to build a model for analyzing and classifying the companies in three categories related to their form of management. The multi-criteria approach allowed to create an assessment of self-management practices in the WRCs studied.
Highlights
In the last 100 years, workers have taken up factories and other work and production spaces, creating worker councils or self-managing companies in several regions of the planet
Self-declaration was considered as a “criterion” for assessing the companies. This is not a new criterion, but just an interpretation of the answers provided by the companies for a question of the mapping that asked them for a self-assessment in terms of the self-management processes
The criteria for assessing self-management, discussed in the conceptual review that will be considered for classifying the worker-recovered companies (WRCs) are: Link with the movements and/or principles; Opening for new partners; Work organization elements; Payment difference and; Collective participation in the areas of power
Summary
In the last 100 years, workers have taken up factories and other work and production spaces, creating worker councils or self-managing companies in several regions of the planet. The common feature of these experiences is the workers’ fight for more participation in the management of the companies. In Latin America, the experiences in worker self-management are manifested, among other forms, significantly in processes of company recovery by workers. Company recovery is a practice developed by workers who, in the imminence of becoming unemployed, negotiate or fight for access to the means of production of bankrupting companies, and start to manage them collectively guided by the principles of self-management. Ruggeri (2009) defines company recovery as a social and economic process that assumes the existence of a previous capitalist company whose bankruptcy or economical unviability has resulted in the worker’s fight to protect them Company recovery is a practice developed by workers who, in the imminence of becoming unemployed, negotiate or fight for access to the means of production of bankrupting companies, and start to manage them collectively guided by the principles of self-management. Ruggeri (2009) defines company recovery as a social and economic process that assumes the existence of a previous capitalist company whose bankruptcy or economical unviability has resulted in the worker’s fight to protect them
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