The People's Hotel by Katherine Sobering
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.
"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) "Sobering’s The People’s Hotel is powerful, moving, and, I would argue, the best organizational ethnography to date on the inner workings of one of Argentina’s worker-recuperated companies. . . . Without doubt, The People’s Hotel is a landmark that serves to safeguard the legacy of the BAUEN workers and should become a much-cited study of organizational ethnography for years to come." - Marcelo Vieta (American Journal of Sociology) "Sobering’s beautifully written and engaging ethnography will appeal to a variety of readers, including labor historians, scholars of social movements, and anyone interested in the history of efforts to forge more just and democratic workplaces." - Jennifer A Adair (Journal of Social History)
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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| ISBN 13 | 9781478015635 |
| ISBN 10 | 1478015632 |
| Title | The People's Hotel |
| Author | Katherine Sobering |
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| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Duke University Press |
| Year published | 2022-09-09 |
| Number of pages | 272 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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