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.

"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)

• Acknowledgments  ixIntroduction  11. Recuperating the Hotel Bauen  192. Democracy at Work  473. Hospitality in Cooperation  734. Rotating Opportunity  965. The Politics of Equal Pay  1206. The Activist Workplace  148Conclusions  171Epilogue: Surviving (Another) Crisis  181Methodological Appendix  187Notes  201References  227Index  253

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.

"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)

• Acknowledgments  ixIntroduction  11. Recuperating the Hotel Bauen  192. Democracy at Work  473. Hospitality in Cooperation  734. Rotating Opportunity  965. The Politics of Equal Pay  1206. The Activist Workplace  148Conclusions  171Epilogue: Surviving (Another) Crisis  181Methodological Appendix  187Notes  201References  227Index  253

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.

"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)

• Acknowledgments  ixIntroduction  11. Recuperating the Hotel Bauen  192. Democracy at Work  473. Hospitality in Cooperation  734. Rotating Opportunity  965. The Politics of Equal Pay  1206. The Activist Workplace  148Conclusions  171Epilogue: Surviving (Another) Crisis  181Methodological Appendix  187Notes  201References  227Index  253