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Book SynopsisKatherine 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.
Trade Review"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 *
Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix
Introduction 1
1. Recuperating the Hotel Bauen 19
2. Democracy at Work 47
3. Hospitality in Cooperation 73
4. Rotating Opportunity 96
5. The Politics of Equal Pay 120
6. The Activist Workplace 148
Conclusions 171
Epilogue: Surviving (Another) Crisis 181
Methodological Appendix 187
Notes 201
References 227
Index 253
