Marcelo Vieta
Current research interests:
- Worker-recuperated enterprises and worker cooperatives.
- Alternative social and economic organizations.
- The social and solidarity economy.
- Community economic development.
- The cooperative movements of Argentina, Italy, Cuba, and Canada.
- The sociology of work and organizations.
- Workplace and organizational learning.
- Philosophy of technology.
Current Research Projects:
- The experiences, socioeconomic contexts, and enabling environments of worker buyouts or takeovers of investor-owned or proprietary firms in crisis and their conversion to worker cooperatives in Argentina, Italy, and in other conjunctures.
- The development of new cooperatives in Canada.
- The role of worker coops and other social economy organizations for overcoming and moving beyond the perpetual crisis of capital.
- Alternative economic development and autogestión (self-management).
- The completion of my forthcoming book, to be published in 2014: There’s No Stopping the Workers: Crisis, Autogestión, and Argentina’s Worker-Recuperated Enterprises (Leiden, The Netherlands: Brill)
Research Topics:
- Sociology of work and organizations.
- The social and solidarity economy.
- Workplace and organizational learning.
- Experiments in community pedagogy.
- Critical and alterantive development.
- Political economy of Argentina.
- Historical materialism.
- Sociological phenomenology.
- Critical theory and the Frankfurt School.
- Media, technology, and communication studies.
Research methodologies:
- Qualitative research methods (especially in industrial settings and worker cooperatives).
- Extended case studies.
- Ethnographic and participant observation methods.
- Interviewing and focus groups.
- Survey design, implementation, and analysis.
- Political economic analysis.
- Phenomenological methods.
- Participatory action research.
Contact me for:
- To partner on projects.
- If you are interested in worker buyouts and workplace conversions, worker cooperatives, and alternative economic arrangements more broadly.
- If you would like to be a part of a cross-national research network on worker buyouts and workplace recuperations by workers, see http://tinyurl.com/p3dgyvn.
- If you are interested in discussing and sharing notes on the history and theories of self-management, autogestión, cooperation, workers’ control, alternative economics, or critical development studies.
Biography:

Marcelo Vieta
Assistant Professor
Name: Marcelo Vieta
Institution: The Social Economy Centre (OISE/Univerity of Toronto) and European Research Institute on Cooperative and Social Enterprises (EURICSE) (Trento, Italy)
Phone: +1.416.854.4507
Email: marcelo.vieta@utoronto.ca