ABSTRACT
This chapter analyzes the formation of worker cooperatives in the 1960s in greater depth based on two case studies from the province of Buenos Aires. One is the Berisso Textile Cooperative, and the other is the Martín Fierro de Zárate Cooperative. The purpose here is to reflect on the different ways workers reacted to the problem of their company shutting down. Unlike the cooperative movement in general, which has produced an abundance of research literature, this initial period of work-related cooperatives has remained almost entirely unstudied. When producing a history of solidarity in the working world, especially in relation to the phenomenon of unemployment, it is also important to compare these earlier experiences with those arising after Argentina's critical year of 2001, because they reflected the notion of economic solidarity as well as a cooperative alternative to the capitalist system, which has shown only a very limited ability to mitigate the ongoing situation of structural crisis in Argentina.
