This project examines how alternative organizations construct and maintain equality in the workplace. It focuses on the case of worker-recuperated businesses in Argentina, which are companies that have been converted from privately-owned enterprises into worker-controlled cooperatives.
Existing research suggests that these alternative organizations innovate in order to survive in a capitalist market. Yet the outcomes of such workplace innovations have not been connected to the production or reduction of inequality. This project builds on research on organizations and inequality to examine how worker-recuperated businesses create more equal workplaces and when and why they are successful in doing so. I am currently working on a book manuscript on my main case study, the worker-run Hotel Bauen, and I have a series of recently published articles.