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| − | '''Hotel Bauen''' is a worker-run<ref name=Upsidedownworld>Sammy Loren, [http://upsidedownworld.org/main/content/view/28/32/ Argentina’s Worker-Run Hotel Bauen] Upside Down World</ref> hotel in [[Buenos Aires]],<ref name=Rethinkingeconomies> Alice Bryer, [http://www.rethinkingeconomies.org.uk/web/d/doc_71.pdf Beyond Bureaucracies?] ''Rethinkingeconomies.org.uk''</ref> the capital and largest city in [[Argentina]]. It is a 20-story hotel<ref>Brian Byrnes, [http://www.csmonitor.com/2003/0425/p08s01-woam.htm Argentina elects a new president on Sunday amid a five-year recession] The Christian Science Monitor</ref> established in 1978 by the Iurcovich family<ref name=Rethinkingeconomies/> on loan from the then military dictatorship government<ref name=Upsidedownworld/> and was well-known as a meeting venue for right-wing politicians. But the Iurcovich family did not pay back the loan and the hotel was sold to a Chilean company named Solari SA in 1997 which also did not pay the money. The owners abandoned the hotel by 2001 which left approximately 250 people unemployed. Finally the workers themselves reopened the hotel in 2003. They also fulfilled the legal safety requirements ignored by the previous capitalist owners.<ref name=Rethinkingeconomies/> After workers took control of the hotel, profits have also risen.<ref name=Upsidedownworld/> | + | '''Hotel Bauen''' is a [[Workers' self-management|worker-run]]<ref name=Upsidedownworld>Sammy Loren, [http://upsidedownworld.org/main/content/view/28/32/ Argentina’s Worker-Run Hotel Bauen] Upside Down World</ref> hotel in [[Buenos Aires]],<ref name=Rethinkingeconomies> Alice Bryer, [http://www.rethinkingeconomies.org.uk/web/d/doc_71.pdf Beyond Bureaucracies?] ''Rethinkingeconomies.org.uk''</ref> the capital and largest city in [[Argentina]]. It is a 20-story hotel<ref>Brian Byrnes, [http://www.csmonitor.com/2003/0425/p08s01-woam.htm Argentina elects a new president on Sunday amid a five-year recession] The Christian Science Monitor</ref> established in 1978 by the Iurcovich family<ref name=Rethinkingeconomies/> on loan from the then military dictatorship government<ref name=Upsidedownworld/> and was well-known as a meeting venue for right-wing politicians. But the Iurcovich family did not pay back the loan and the hotel was sold to a Chilean company named Solari SA in 1997 which also did not pay the money. The owners abandoned the hotel by 2001 which left approximately 250 people unemployed. Finally the workers themselves reopened the hotel in 2003. They also fulfilled the legal safety requirements ignored by the previous capitalist owners.<ref name=Rethinkingeconomies/> After workers took control of the hotel, profits have also risen.<ref name=Upsidedownworld/> |
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Revision as of 21:09, 6 October 2008
Hotel Bauen is a worker-run[1] hotel in Buenos Aires,[2] the capital and largest city in Argentina. It is a 20-story hotel[3] established in 1978 by the Iurcovich family[2] on loan from the then military dictatorship government[1] and was well-known as a meeting venue for right-wing politicians. But the Iurcovich family did not pay back the loan and the hotel was sold to a Chilean company named Solari SA in 1997 which also did not pay the money. The owners abandoned the hotel by 2001 which left approximately 250 people unemployed. Finally the workers themselves reopened the hotel in 2003. They also fulfilled the legal safety requirements ignored by the previous capitalist owners.[2] After workers took control of the hotel, profits have also risen.[1]
Hotel Bauen is often considered to be an example about how workers can form labour-orientated kinds of social responsibility in opposition to the capitalist system.[2] According to receptionist Luisa Casanova, "It is more than just a hotel. Political groups and unions meet here during the week; people from the provinces arriving in Buenos Aires for their first time know to come here to find job opportunities. Bauen influences other social movements in a positive way."[1]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 Sammy Loren, Argentina’s Worker-Run Hotel Bauen Upside Down World
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 Alice Bryer, Beyond Bureaucracies? Rethinkingeconomies.org.uk
- ↑ Brian Byrnes, Argentina elects a new president on Sunday amid a five-year recession The Christian Science Monitor
