{"product_id":"the-peoples-hotel-9781478015635","title":"The Peoples Hotel","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eKatherine 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 cooperativeone where decisions were made democratically, jobs were rotated, and all members were paid equally.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Sobering’s study ... restores, through analysis, the subjective dynamics behind the decision to self-manage a workspace and the desire to transform it into a cooperative space that can serve as a contagion vector for the production of urban counterpower.\" -- Vincenzo Maria Di Mino * Urban Studies Journal blog *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgments  ix\u003cbr\u003e Introduction  1\u003cbr\u003e 1. Recuperating the Hotel Bauen  19\u003cbr\u003e 2. Democracy at Work  47\u003cbr\u003e 3. Hospitality in Cooperation  73\u003cbr\u003e 4. Rotating Opportunity  96\u003cbr\u003e 5. The Politics of Equal Pay  120\u003cbr\u003e 6. The Activist Workplace  148\u003cbr\u003e Conclusions  171\u003cbr\u003e Epilogue: Surviving (Another) Crisis  181\u003cbr\u003e Methodological Appendix  187\u003cbr\u003e Notes  201\u003cbr\u003e References  227\u003cbr\u003e Index  253","brand":"Duke University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49408999457111,"sku":"9781478015635","price":70.55,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781478015635.jpg?v=1730505037","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-peoples-hotel-9781478015635","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}