Katherine 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 cooperative-one where decisions were made democratically, jobs were rotated, and all members were paid equally.
Katherine 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 cooperative-one where decisions were made democratically, jobs were rotated, and all members were paid equally.
Katherine Sobering is Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of North Texas and coauthor of The Ambivalent State: Police-Criminal Collusion at the Urban Margins.
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Acknowledgments 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