Marcelo Vieta, PhD
Workplace Democracy, Change, and Learning | Economic Democracy | Autogestión
Social and Solidarity Economy | Cooperatives and the New Cooperativism | Sociology of Work | Critical Theory
PUBLISHED WRITINGS
Books
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Vieta, M. (2020). Workers’ self-management in Argentina: Contesting neo-liberalism
by occupying companies, creating cooperatives, and recuperating autogestión.
Leiden and Chicago: Brill Academic Publishers and Haymarket Books
(Historical Materialism Book Series) (hard-cover available October 2019 with a
2020 publication date by Brill, soft-cover by Haymarket published January 2021
with a 2020 publication date).
2022 Joyce Rothschild Book Prize - Honourable Mention (adjudication
organized by the Institute for the Study of Employee Ownership and Profit Sharing
at Rutgers University)
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Cheney, G., Noyes, M., Do, E., Vieta, M., Azkarraga, J., & Michel, C. (2023).
Cooperatives at work. Bingley, UK: Emerald Publishing.
2023 Joyce Rothschild Book Prize - Winner Best Book (adjudication
organized by the Institute for the Study of Employee Ownership and Profit Sharing
at Rutgers University)
Azzellini, D. & Vieta, M. (2025). Commoning labour and democracy at work:
When workers take over. London: Routledge (forthcoming).
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Journal Articles and Book Chapters
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Vieta, M. (2025). Book review of Metaphysics of cooperation: Edward Abramowski’s social philosophy, with a selection of his writings (edited by BartÅ‚omiej BÅ‚esznowski and Cezary Rudnicki, Brill). Historical Materialism (submitted Jul. 2023, forthcoming).​
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Srnec, C. & Vieta, M. (2025). Worker-recuperated companies and alternative management in the 21st century in Argentina. Histoire du management, perspectives du Sud. Laval, QC: Presses de l’Université Laval (forthcoming).
Vieta, M., Cheney, G., Noyes, M., & Do, E. (2024). Revisiting the ‘spillover thesis’ in participatory workplaces and worker cooperatives. In J. Warren, J. Hübner, L. Biggiero, & K. Ogunyemi (Eds.), The Routledge handbook of cooperative economics and management. London: Routledge (forthcoming).
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Vieta, M. (2024). Book review of The people's hotel: Working for justice in Argentina (by Katherine Sobering, Duke University Press). American Journal of Sociology, 129(5), 1572-1575.
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Hill, D.C., Perez-Brumer, A., Vieta, M., & Birn, A.-E. (2024). Holistic approaches to COVID-19 care: Lessons from Costa Rican co-operatives. Journal of Co-operative Accounting and Management, 7(1), 77-93.
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Vieta, M. & Heras, A.I. (2023). Social and solidarity economy and self-management. In M. Atzeni, A. Mezzadra, D. Azzellini, P., Moore, & U. Apitzsch (Eds.), Research handbook on the global political economy of work (pp. 161-171). Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar Publishing.
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Heras, A.I., Burin, D., Fuente Goldman, J., Herrera, P.M., Movida de Locos, & Vieta, M. (2023). Inclusión sociolaboral en clave de salud mental comunitaria: Una perspectiva geográfica. Parrafos Geográficos, 2(22). 12-36.
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Vieta, M. & Lionais, D. (2022). The new cooperativism, the commons, and the post-capitalist imaginary. Journal of Co-operative Studies, Winter 55(3), 9-24.
Simpson, L., Luk, A., Hall, P., Vieta, M., & Chan, A. (2022). Balancing consistency and flexibility: Challenges and opportunities in conducting a cross-country longitudinal study with youth participants in work-integration social enterprises. Canadian Journal of Nonprofit and Social Economy Research (ANSERJ) (in press).
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Vieta, M., & Heras, A.I. (2022). Organizational solidarity in practice in Bolivia and Argentina: Building coalitions of resistance and creativity. Organization, 29(2), 271-294.
Authors’ presentaton on key themes of the article at the “Liviana” Community Economies Research Network conference, Nov. 25, 2021.
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Heras, A.I. & Vieta, M. (2022). Acciones emancipadores hacia transiciones más justas: Métodos para indentificar y analizar el valor generado en común y pare el bien común. Cuadernos de Sociología, 10(July), 22-34.
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Sotomayor, L., Tarhan, M.D., Vieta, M., McCartney, S., & Mas, A. (2022). When students are house-poor: Universities, student marginality and housing struggles in an aspiring global city. Cities, 124(May), https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cities.2022.103572.
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Pillai, A.,Vieta, M., & Sotomayor, L. (2021). University Student Housing as Business Proposition and Entrepreneurial Activity: The Canadian Case. Housing Policy Debate, https://doi.org/10.1080/10511482.2021.1883703.
Vieta, M. (2021). Responding to business succession issues and crises by converting to co-operatives: Canadian realities and possibilities. Canadian Journal of Nonprofit and Social Economy Research, 12(2), 13-22.
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Vieta, M. (2021). Recuperating and (re)learning the language of autogestión in Argentina’s empresas recuperadas worker cooperatives. In S.M. Scott (Ed.), Languages of Economic Crises (Chapter 4). London: Routledge (reprint).
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Bianchi, M. & Vieta, M. (2020). Co-operatives, territories and social capital: Reconsidering a theoretical framework. International Journal of Social Economics, 47(12), 1599-1616.
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Heras, A.I. & Vieta, M. (2020). Self-managed enterprise: Worker-recuperated co-operatives in Argentina and Latin America. In J.K. Gibson-Graham & K. Dombroski (Eds.)., The handbook of diverse economies (pp. 48-55). Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar Publishing.
Vieta, M. (2020). Saving jobs and businesses in times of crisis: The Italian road to creating worker cooperatives from worker buyouts. In B. Roelants, S. Esim, W. Katajamäki, & S. Novkovic (Eds.), Cooperatives and the world of work. London: Routledge.
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Vieta, M. (2019). Recuperating and (re)learning the language of autogestión in Argentina’s empresas recuperadas worker cooperatives. Journal of Cultural Economy, 12(5), 401-422.
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Bianchi, M. & Vieta, M. (2019). Italian community co-operatives responding to economic crisis and state withdrawal: A new model for socio-economic development. For the Implementing the Sustainable Development Goals: What Role for the Social and Solidarity Economy? conference and working paper call, United Nations Research Institute for Social Development (UNRISD) (Jun. 25-26).
Vieta, M. (2019). W: Workers’ buyout. In A. Bernardi & S. Monni (Eds.), Parole chiave per l’empresa cooperative del futuro (pp. 209-2016). Bologna: Il Mulino.
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Vieta, M. (2018). Autogestión ayer, hoy y mañana (prólogo/prologue). In A. Ruggeri, Autogestión y revolución: De las primeras cooperativas a Petrograda y Barcelona (pp. 16-22). Buenos Aires: Ediciones Callao.
Vieta, M. (2018). New co-operativism in Latin America: Implications for Cuba. In S. Novkovic & H. Veltmeyer (Eds.), Cooperativism and local development in Cuba: An agenda for democratic social change (pp. 51-81). Leiden: Brill.
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Ruggeri, A., Antivero, J., Polti, N., & Vieta, M. (2018). The University of Buenos Aires’ Programa Facultad Abierta: Reflections on a collaborative and political–academic university extension initiative with Argentina’s self-managed workers. Alberta Journal of Educational Research, 64(2), 194-201.
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Vieta, M. (2017). Inklings of the great refusal: Echoes of Marcuse’s post-technological rationality today. In T. Wolfson, A. Lamas, & P. Funke (Eds.), The great refusal: Herbert Marcuse and contemporary social movements (pp. 258-282). Philadelphia: Temple University Press.
Giovannini, M. & Vieta, M. (2017). Cooperatives in Latin America. In J. Michie, J. Blassi, & C. Borzaga (Eds.), The Oxford handbook of mutual, co-operative, and co-owned businesses (pp. 335-347). Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Vieta, M. (2016). Marcuse’s “transcendent project” at 50: Post-technological rationality for our times. Radical Philosophy Review (50th anniversary special issue of the publication of One-Dimensional Man), 19(1), 143-172.
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Vieta, M. (2016). B: Workers’ buyout. In A. Bernardi & S. Monni (Eds.), The co-operative firm: Keywords (pp. 23-38). Rome: Università degli Studi Roma Tre Press/Roma TrE-Press.
Vieta, M., Quarter, J., Spear, R., & Moskovskaya, A. (2016). Participation in worker co-operatives. In D. Horton Smith, R.A. Stebbins, and J. Grotz (Eds.), Palgrave handbook of volunteering, civic participation, and nonprofit associations (pp. 436-453). Houndmills, Basingstoke, UK: Palgrave Macmillan.
Vieta, M. (2016). Autogestión: Prefiguring the “new cooperativism” and “the labour commons.” In C. DuRand (Ed.), Moving beyond capitalism (pp. 55-63). London: Routledge.
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Vieta, M. & Lionais, D. (2015). The cooperative advantage for community development (editorial). Journal of Entrepreneurial and Organizational Diversity, 4(1), 1-10.
Vieta, M., Schatz, N., & Kasparian, G. (2015). Social return on investment for Good Foot Delivery: A collaborative reflection. Nonprofit Management & Leadership, 26(2), 157-172.
Ruggeri, A. & Vieta, M. (2015). Argentina’s worker-recuperated enterprises, 2010-2013: A synthesis of recent empirical findings. Journal of Entrepreneurial and Organizational Diversity, 4(1), 75-103.
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Vieta, M. & Depedri, S. (2015). Le imprese recuperata in Italia. In C. Borzaga (Ed.), Economia cooperativa italiane: Rilevanza, evoluzione e nuove frontiere della cooperazione italiana: Terzo rapporto Euricse, 2015 (pp. 220-244). Trento, Italy: European Research Institute on Cooperative and Social Enterprises.
Sengupta, U., Vieta, M., & McMurtry, J.J. (2015). Indigenous communities and social enterprise in Canada: Incorporating culture as an essential ingredient of entrepreneurship. Canadian Journal of Nonprofit and Social Economy Research, 6(1), 104-123.
Brouard, F., McMurtry, J.J., & Vieta, M. (2015). Social enterprises models in Canada: Ontario. Canadian Journal of Nonprofit and Social Economy Research, 6(1), 63-82.
Vieta, M. (2014). The stream of self-determination and autogestión: Prefiguring alternative economic realities. Ephemera: Theory and Politics in Organization, 14(4), 781-809.
Vieta, M. (2014). Learning in struggle: Argentina’s new worker cooperatives as transformative learning organizations. Relations Industrielles/Industrial Relations, 69(1), 186-218.
Vieta, M. (2014). Saving more than jobs: Transforming workers, businesses, and communities through Argentina’s worker-recuperated enterprises. In Social and solidarity economy: Towards inclusive and sustainable development (pp. 5-34). Geneva: International Labour Organization (ILO).
Atzeni, M. & Vieta, M. (2014). Between class and the market: Self-management in theory and in the practice of worker-recuperated enterprises in Argentina. In M. Parker, G. Cheney, V. Fournier, & C. Land (Eds.), Routledge companion to alternative organization (pp. 47-63). London: Routledge.
Vieta, M. & Ralón, L. (2013). Being-in-the-technologically-mediated-world: The existential philosophy of Marshall McLuhan. Popular Culture Studies Journal, 1(1 & 2), 36-60.
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Vieta, M. (2013). Recuperating a workplace, creating a community space: The story of Cooperativa Chilavert Artes Gráficas. Scapegoat: Architecture, Landscape, Political Economy, 4, 160-178.
Ralón, L. & Vieta, M. (2012). McLuhan and phenomenology. Explorations in Media Ecology: Journal of the Media Ecology Association, 10(3 & 4), 181-201.
Ralón, L. & Vieta, M. (2012). Reinterpretación fenomenológica del modelo de la experiencia: Pensando a lo McLuhan. Infoamérica: Iberoamerican Communication Review, 7/8, 97-119.
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Vieta, M. (2012). From managed employees to self-managed workers: The transformations of labour at Argentina’s worker-recuperated enterprises. In M. Atzeni (Ed.), Alternative work organization (pp. 129-157). Houndmills, Basingstoke, UK: Palgrave Macmillan.
Vieta, M., Larrabure, M., & Schugurensky, D. (2012). Social businesses in 21st century Latin America: The cases of Argentina and Venezuela. In J. Quarter, L. Mook, & S. Ryan (Eds.), Businesses with a difference: Balancing the social and the economic (pp. 113-155). Toronto: University of Toronto Press.
Laraburre, M., Vieta, M., & Schugurensky, D. (2011). The “new cooperativism” in Latin America: Worker-recuperated enterprises and socialist production units. Studies in the Education of Adults, 43(2), 181-196.
Vieta, M. (2010). The social innovations of autogestión in Argentina’s worker-recuperated enterprises: Cooperatively organizing productive life in hard times. Labor Studies Journal, 35(3), 295-321.
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Vieta, M. (2010). The new cooperativism (editorial). Affinities: A Journal of Radical Theory, Culture, and Action, 4(1), 1-11.
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Vieta, M. (2010). Book review of Living economics: Canadian perspectives on the social economy, co-operatives, and community economic development, edited by J.J. McMurtry. Canadian Journal of Non-Profit and Social Economy Research, 1(1), 105-109.
Vieta, M. (2010). Hope for our technological inheritance? From substantive critiques of technology to Marcuse’s post-technological rationality. Strategies of Critique: Graduate Journal of Social and Political Thought, 2(1), 1-20.
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Vieta, M. & Ruggeri, A. (2009). The worker-recovered enterprises as workers’ cooperatives: The conjunctures, challenges, and innovations of self-management in Argentina and Latin America. In J.J. McMurtry & D. Reed (Eds.), Co-operatives in a global economy: The challenges of co-operation across borders (pp. 178-225). Newcastle-Upon-Tyne, UK: Cambridge Scholars Press.
Vieta, M. (2009). Las empresas recuperadas por sus trabajadores como cooperativas de trabajo. In A. Ruggeri (Ed.), Las empresas recuperadas: Autogestión obrera en Argentina y Latinoamérica (pp. 93-102). Buenos Aires: University of Buenos Aires Faculty of Philosophy and Letters Press.
Vieta, M. (2009). Desafíos e innovaciones sociales en las empresas recuperadas por sus trabajadores. In A. Ruggeri (Ed.), Las empresas recuperadas: Autogestión obrera en Argentina y Latinoamérica (pp. 103-114). Buenos Aires: University of Buenos Aires Faculty of Philosophy and Letters Press.
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de Peuter, G., Shaw, C., & Vieta, M. (2007). Recovering and recreating spaces of production: A virtual roundtable with protagonists of Argentina’s worker-recovered enterprises movement. Affinities: A Journal of Radical Theory, Culture, and Action, 1(1), 33-48.
Vieta, M. (2005). Rethinking life online: The interactional self as a theory for internet-mediated communication. Iowa Journal of Communication, 37(1), 27-57.
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Chee, F., Vieta, M., & Smith, R. (2005). Online gaming and the interactional self: Identity interplay in situated practice. In P. Williams, S.Q. Hendricks, & W.K. Winkler (Eds.), Gaming as culture: Essays on reality, identity, and experience in fantasy games (pp. 154-174). Jefferson, NC: McFarland.
Ralón, L., Vieta, M., & Vásquez, L. (2004). (De)formación en línea: Acerca de las desventajas de la educación virtual. Comunicar, 22, 171-176.
Edited Journals
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Vieta, M. & Lionais, D. (Eds.). (2015). The cooperative advantage for community development (special issue). Journal of Entrepreneurial and Organizational Diversity, 4(1).
Vieta, M. (Ed.). (2010). The new cooperativism (special issue). Affinities: A Journal of Radical Theory, Culture, and Action, 4(1).
Reports and Working Papers
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Vieta, M., Charbonneau, J., & Duguid, F. (2024). Business conversion to co-operatives in Canada: A landscape report. Co-opConvert Report No. 3. Toronto: The Conversion to Co-operatives Project, Centre for Learning, Social Economy, and Work, University of Toronto.
Tarhan, D., Vieta, M., & Hodgson-Bautista, J. (2023). Final research report: The WISE training project for at-risk youth. Prepared for Employment and Social Development Canada. Centre for Learning, Social Economy, and Work, University of Toronto.
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Vieta, M., Tarhan, D., Duguid, F., & Guillotte, C.A. (2021). Canada’s SMEs, business succession, and conversion to co-operatives. Co-opConvert Report No. 1. Toronto: The Conversion to Co-operatives Project, Centre for Learning, Social Economy, and Work, University of Toronto. (Available in English and French.)
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Pillai, A. & Vieta, M. (2021). Aron Theatre Co-operative: A new hope for an Ontario small town’s downtown. Co-opConvert Case Study. The Conversion to Co-operatives Project. Toronto: Centre for Learning, Social Economy, and Work, University of Toronto. (Available in English and French.)
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Pillai, A. & Vieta, M. (2021). Battle River Railway New Generation Co-operative: A rural community co-operatively innovating to save a way of life. Co-opConvert Case Study. The Conversion to Co-operatives Project. Toronto: Centre for Learning, Social Economy, and Work, University of Toronto. (Available in English and French.)
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Hamal, P. & Vieta, M. (2021). Harrop-Procter Community Co-operative: A case study in converting crown land forest tenure to co-operative stewardship. Co-opConvert Case Study. The Conversion to Co-operatives Project. Toronto: Centre for Learning, Social Economy, and Work, University of Toronto. (Available in English and French.)
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Vieta, M., Khoramshahi, C., & Pillai, A. (2020). University of Toronto’s student housing strategy and policies: Between student needs and market pressures. Report prepared for the funded project StudentDwellTO (University Student Housing Initiative: Addressing the Affordability Challenge) (2017-2019).
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Vieta, M., Depedri, S., & Carrano, A. (2017). The Italian road to recuperating enterprises and the Legge Marcora framework: Italy’s worker buyouts in times of crisis. Research Report No. 015|17. Trento, Italy: European Research Institute on Cooperative and Social Enterprises.
Vieta, M. (2015). The Italian road to creating worker cooperatives from workers’ buyouts: The emergence of Italy’s worker-recuperated enterprises and the Legge Marcora framework. SSRN and Euricse Working Papers 78/11. Trento, Italy: European Research Institute on Cooperative and Social Enterprises.
Duguid, F., Tarhan, M.D., & Vieta, M. (2015). New cooperative development in Canada: Findings from research emerging from the Co-operative Development Initiative (2009-2013). Program Report presented to Co-operatives and Mutuals Canada (CMC) and the Measuring the Co-operative Difference Research Network (MCDRN). Ottawa, Canada (May 1).
McMurtry, J.J., Brouard, F., Elson, P., Hall, P., Lionais, D., & Vieta, M. (2015). Social enterprises in Canada: Context, models, and institutions. ICSEM Working Papers No. 2015-04. Report presented to the International Comparative Social Enterprise Models (ICSEM). EMES Network. Liege, Belgium: University of Liege (Apr. 15).
Brouard, F., McMurtry, J.J., & Vieta, M. (2015). Social enterprise models in Canada: Ontario. Report presented to the International Comparative Social Enterprise Models (ICSEM), EMES Network. EMES Network. Liege, Belgium: University of Liege (Apr. 15).
Vieta, M. (2013). The emergence of the empresas recuperadas por sus trabajadores: A political economic and sociological appraisal of two decades of self-management in Argentina. SSRN and Euricse Working Paper 55/13. Trento, Italy: European Research Institute on Cooperative and Social Enterprises.
Vieta, M. (2012). Recuperating enterprises, reviving communities: A cross-national assessment of conversions of investor-owned businesses in crisis into labour-managed firms. Position Paper presented to the European Commission by the European Research Institute on Cooperative and Social Enterprises. Brussels, Belgium (Apr. 21).
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Vieta, M. (2006). Herbert Marcuse's critique of technological rationality: An exegetical reading. Working paper.
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Other Scholarly Publications
Ruggeri, A. & Vieta, M. (2023). Javier Milei has tapped into the discontent of an new, informal working class. Jacobin Magazine (Dec. 12).
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Vieta, M. (2023). A Selection of Texts by Marcelo Vieta. Autogestión, Newsletter 7, 10-12.
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Vieta, M. & Cheney, G. (2023). Come together for better business. The European. (Apr.)
Vieta, M. (2021). Canada’s small businesses could be saved by converting them to co-operatives. The Conversation Canada (Aug. 3).
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Musil, D., Gibson, K., Vieta, M., & Healy, S. (2020). Tonight we riot? What Nintendo’s “revolutionary” video game misses about worker liberation. The Conversation Australia (May 21).
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Vieta, M. & Duguid, F. (2020). Las cooperativas en Canadá: ayudando a las comunidades durante y después del coronavirus. Autogestón para Otra Economía (Jun.).
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Vieta, M. & Duguid, F. (2020). Canada’s co-operatives: Helping communities during and after the coronavirus. The Conversation Canada (Apr. 20).
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Vieta, M. (2017). Las empresas recuperadas italianas: Dentro y más allá de la Ley Marcora. Autogestión para Otra Economía, 1(3), 30-33.
Duguid, F., Tarhan, M.D., & Vieta, M. (2015). New co-operative development in Canada: Findings from research emerging from the co-operative development initiative (2009-2013). Research synopsis.
Vieta, M., & Duguid, F. (2013). Innovations and challenges of co-operative development in Canada. Measuring the Co-operative Difference Network Newsletter, 3(4), 4.
Vieta, M. (2012). Cuba’s coming co-operative economy? Reflections from two recent field trips. The Bullet: The Socialist Project’s E-Bulletin, No. 667 (Jul. 18). With reprints in: GlobalResearch.ca: Centre for Research on Globalization (Jul. 18, 2012); ZNet Magazine (Jul. 21, 2012); Links: International Journal of Socialist Renewal (Jul. 21, 2012). Translation into Italian: “Cuba: In arrivo l’economia cooperativa?” ZNet Italy Magazine (Jul. 23).
Vieta, M. (2012). Cuba and the coming cooperative economy: Some initial reflections. Canadian Association for Studies in Co-operation Newsletter (Spring), 12-16.
Vieta, M., & Askew, K. (2012). From nothing to the fastest growing medical clinic in the province: Cooperativa de Trabajo Salud Junín. Featured story for www.stories.coop and the book Building a better world: 100 stories of co-operation. ICA 2012. International Cooperative Alliance and European Research Institute on Cooperative and Social Enterprises initiative (Mar. 21). http://stories.coop/stories/written/nothing-fastest-growing-medical-clinic-province
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Vieta, M., & Askew, K. (2012). Argentinean workers take destiny into their own hands: Unión Solidaria de Trabajadores. A featured story for www.stories.coop and the book Building a better world: 100 stories of co-operation. ICA 2012. International Cooperative Alliance and European Research Institute on Cooperative and Social Enterprises initiative (Mar. 1). http://stories.coop/stories/written/union-solidaria-trabajadores
Vieta, M., & Askew, K. (2012). Artes Gráficas Chilavert. A featured story for www.stories.coop and the book Building a better world: 100 stories of co-operation. ICA 2012. International Cooperative Alliance and European Research Institute on Cooperative and Social Enterprises initiative (Feb. 14). http://stories.coop/stories/written/artes-graficas-chilavert
Vieta, M. (2011). David Noble as teacher and friend. Canadian Dimension, 45(2) (Mar./Apr.), 33.
Gracie, T. & Vieta, M. (2010). Reaching out: Facilitating youth and student co-operativism. Canadian Association for Studies in Co-operation Newsletter (Winter), 11-12.
Vieta, M. (2006). Argentina’s worker-recovered enterprises movement: Reconstituting working lives. New Socialist Magazine, 57, 21-23.
Vieta, M. (2005). A critical look at York University’s email policy for graduate students. Critical Times, 2(7) (Oct.), 14-15.
Vieta, M. (2003). What’s the matter with the blogosphere? Digest: Innovations in New Media, 1.10 (Nov.).
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Vieta, M. (2001). The day after the world stood still: Immediate reflections on 9/11. mybc.com. (Sept. 12).
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