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:

http://utoronto.academia.edu/MarceloVieta

www.vieta.ca

www.euricse.eu/en/node/2017