The topic of recovered enterprise has gained recent attention internationally, especially after the Global Financial Crisis of 2008 threatened small and medium businesses across the planet. This makes Argentina’s extensive history of recovered enterprises [which in Argentina are referred to as Empresas Recuperadas por sus Trabajadoras (ERTs)] all the more rele- vant for contemporary policymakers, scholars and workers. Marcelo Vieta’s recent Workers’ Self-Management in Argentina is the first comprehensive English-language review of “the largest movement in the world of worker-led conversions of capitalist businesses into coop- eratives” (p. xv). Vieta’s book will hopefully serve to expose a broader audience to ERTs, by expositing in a structured and exhaustive way their origins, context and contributions to the Argentine political economy. The book is organized into nine chapters, roughly evenly divided between theoretical and empirical foci. The book is a welcome contribution to the study of the phenomenon of workplace democracy that should interest a wide range of readers.
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