Housing

Worker Self-management Threatened at the HOTEL BAUEN in Buenos Aires

Ethan — Wed, 12 Dec 2007 22:53:31 -0500

By Maria Trigona

Inside the BAUEN Hotel, one of Argentina's worker-run workplaces, janitors, repairmen, receptionists and maids sit in an assembly with worried but determined faces and sheets of paper in hand. Each of the workers, some of whom have been working at the hotel since it was built in 1978, hold a court ordered eviction notice, a judicial document notifying the workers they must abandon the hotel or police will force them to leave.

Liberate Your Space!

Ethan — Wed, 12 Dec 2007 15:23:15 -0500

Yes! Magazine, Winter 2008 Issue

Grutas Tolantango: A Model Co-op Answer to Globalization?

Ethan — Mon, 26 Nov 2007 12:36:18 -0500

By Betsy Bowman and Bob Stone

We rarely inquire about a commodity's origins in wage labor. This is especially true of restaurant meals and resort vacations. Our enjoyment might be undercut were we confronted, for example, with the stifling heat and indignity borne at Disneyland by the person in the Mickey Mouse suit. The suit's fixed smile compels its wearer to endure tail-pulling by pre-teens lest the spell of "being with Mickey" is broken and a refund is demanded. So when those who profit from selling commodities conceal the exploitation in their relations of production, we consumers usually ratify their act by a willed ignorance. We don't want to know how our "vacation" is produced!