Self-managed work at the mountain bottom in San Juan. Formation and conformation of the Hotel Cacique Pismanta Cooperative.

Abstract

This article seeks to contribute to the knowledge of workers self-management experiences in the province of San Juan, approaching the analytical lens to the process of conformation the Hotel Cacique Pismanta´s workers, in a cooperative. The study will be approached from a historical-sociological perspective, initiated from the dialogue between the specialized bibliography, the analysis of documentary sources and the voice of the workers themselves. Regarding the theoretical-epistemological approach, three conceptual nucleus have been articulate: the Social Economy, the Sociology of Work and the Sociology of the Organization.

From the investigation and reconstitution of the under study cooperative action, it is possible to characterize it as an expression of the new solidarity forms of organize the production relations, raised on the foundations of an enterprise whose configuration, until then, presented the structure of the capitalist model. On this basis, the conflict between the workers and the employers, that finished in the taking of the hotel will be examined to describe the process of forming the work cooperative and account for self-management.