ABSTRACT

The period from the eighties to the present is a period in which neoliberal policies are dominant and traditional working class organizations are in crisis. These conditions trigger the search for new/alternative organization and struggle of the working class. The recovered factories and recovered factories movement emerged from the mobilization of workers facing the risk of unemployment in factories/businesses that could not survive in the crisis and competition spiral to defend their jobs. This grassroots movement is based on the direct action of workers and is autonomous in character. The recovered factories movement, which emerged as a result of the occupation of hundreds of factories by workers in the 2001 Argentine crisis and the resumption of production in these factories, has spread to different countries of the world, especially to South American countries.