Katherine Sobering recounts the history of the Hotel Bauen, an iconic luxury hotel in Buenos Aires, detailing its twenty-first-century transformation from a privately owned business into a worker cooperative—one where decisions were made democratically, jobs were rotated, and all members were paid equally.

Acknowledgments  ix
Introduction  1
1. Recuperating the Hotel Bauen  19
2. Democracy at Work  47
3. Hospitality in Cooperation  73
4. Rotating Opportunity  96
5. The Politics of Equal Pay  120
6. The Activist Workplace  148
Conclusions  171
Epilogue: Surviving (Another) Crisis  181
Methodological Appendix  187
Notes  201
References  227
Index  253