Cecilia Muñoz Cancela (she) interviews Dr. Denise Kasparian (she), an Argentine professor and researcher (UBA-CONICET). She shares her extensive experience with innovative forms of labor organization, from worker-recovered enterprises to her more recent research on cooperative platforms. The researcher offers insightful perspectives on the role of conflict as a driver of innovation in the development of self-managed organizations.
She also provides details on the Coopcycle delivery platform and the challenges of implementing it in Argentina. Furthermore, she shares action-research methodologies that involve building joint agendas: \"We work together to make this happen, and we also work together to learn as we go.\" Finally, she offers recommendations for enriching research methodologies for students and professionals, as well as potential topics that could contribute to social transformation. No less importantly, she also discusses exercises for imagining a cooperative, solidarity-based future rooted in existing practices.
Co-Operative Struggles: Work Conflicts in Argentina’s New Worker Co-operatives
Other publications by Denise
Kasparian, Denise (2025). Avenues for social empowerment: the cooperative model for app-based food delivery and beyond, Vandaele K. and Rainone S. (eds.), The Elgar companion to regulating platform work. Insights from the food delivery sector, pp. 234-252. Cheltenham, Edward Elgar, 2025.
Kasparian, Denise, Súnico, Agustina, Grasas, Julieta y Cófreces, Julia (2023). La inclusión sociolaboral de trabajadoras de sectores populares en plataformas de trabajo doméstico corporativas y cooperativas, Lavboratorio, 33(2), 80-102.
Kasparian, Denise, Agustina Súnico, Julieta Grasas, and Julia Cófreces (2023). Socio-Labour Inclusion of Low-Income Women in the Digital Economy: A Comparison between Corporate and Cooperative Domestic Work Platforms. Social Sciences, 12(10), 579. https://doi.org/ 10.3390/socsci12100579
Muñoz Cancela, Cecilia; Kasparian. Denise, y Grasas, Julieta (2023). Análisis socio-técnico de la implementación argentina de la plataforma cooperativa CoopCycle, Otra Economía, 16(29), 41-59.
Kasparian, Denise (2023). How Do Platform Co-ops Work? Lessons from Argentina. The New School-Platform Cooperativism Consortium.
Kasparian, Denise (2022). La implementación local de cooperativas de plataforma. Desafíos y contribuciones para la escalabilidad desde la experiencia argentina. Revista Del Centro De Estudios De Sociología Del Trabajo (CESOT), 1(14), 107-148.
Kasparian, Denise (2022). The Local Implementation of Platform Co-ops in Argentina. The New School-Platform Cooperativism Consortium.
Kasparian, Denise (2022). Implementação territorializada de cooperativas de plataforma, Digilabour, laboratório de pesquisa (también disponible en castellano).
Kasparian, Denise (2022). Argentina, Meet CoopCycle!, Platform Cooperativism Consortium (también disponible en castellano).
Kasparian, Denise, Súnico, Agustina, Fajn, Gabriel, Cófreces, Julia, Grasas, Julieta, Katz, Jonathan y Vannini, Pablo (2021). Aportes para un cooperativismo de plataformas feminista.
En Bottini, A.; Boronat Pont, V.; Cascardo, F; Fournier, M.; Mutuberría Lazarini, V. y Sciarretta, V. (coods.), Economía popular, social, solidaria y feminista. Aportes para el debate y la transformación, pp. 35-41. FES–Red Universitaria de Economía Social y Solidaria.