the Birth and Evolution
of Argentina’s Recovered
Businesses
NOW AVAILABLE IN PAPERBACK
Part ethnographic study, part history, and part theory driven
analysis, Reluctant Revolutionaries fills an important gap in
the English language literature regarding a remarkable social
movement. This thoroughly researched text covers the first
decade of Argentina’s Recovered Business Movement, which
began and expanded rapidly in the years following the
country’s economic crisis of 2001. The book offers scholars
of labor studies, social movements, political economy, and
other social sciences detailed insights into the social conflicts,
compromises, resolutions, and changes that came with this
dynamic and evolving worker-led phenomenon, and proposes
some new economic imaginaries for consideration.
Other publications, presentations, performances, and editing
Electrify Te Tai Tokerau e-Newsletter. 2025-26. Writing, layout, editing, and distribution of the email newsletter for Northland’s community chapter of Rewiring Aotearoa.
Baldridge, J. 2012. “Reclaiming our economy and livelihoods through the creation of cooperatives.” Works in Progress. v.22, n.5. May 2012. Olympia, WA.
Baldridge, J. 2011. “Working Women in the United States: Historical & Current Trends in Workforce Participation.” Paper presented at the annual international meeting of the Association of American Geographers, April 2011, in Seattle, WA.
Baldridge, J. 2010. “Argentina’s Industrial Commons.” Paper presented at the annual international meeting of the Association of American Geographers, April 2010, in Washington, DC.
Sociospatial Transformation in Argentina’s Recovered Businesses. 2010. Doctoral dissertation.
Baldridge, J. 2009. “Governing the Industrial Commons.” Paper presented at the annual international meeting of the Association of American Geographers, March 2009, in Las Vegas, NV.
Heikkinen H.I., S. Lakomäki and J. Baldridge. 2007. “The dimensions of sustainability and the neo-entrepreneurial adaptation strategies in reindeer herding in Finland.” Journal of Ecological Anthropology, Vol. 11: 25-42. http://dx.doi.org/10.5038/2162-4593.11.1.2
Baldridge, J. 2007. “Producing sin patrón: emerging cooperative institutions and socio-spatial transformation in Argentina’s recovered businesses.” Paper presented at the annual international meeting of the Association of American Geographers, April 11 2007, in San Francisco, CA.
you are here: journal of creative geography. 2005-2006. Co-editor and board member through 2009.
Baby Boogie. 2005. Studio musician (vocals, pennywhistle) for an award-winning young children’s music album. Produced by the Champaign Public Library, Baby Boogie received a Fall 2005 Parents’ Choice Award for music. The CD is distributed “free to new parents thanks to a grant from Every Child A Reader, a program funded by the Illinois State Library.”
The Observer Quarterly. United Nations Association Champaign County Newsletter. Writing, layout, editing, and print publication of the newsletter for Champaign County’s UNA-USA chapter. Spring 2003 to Summer 2004.
North Sulawesi: Land of Smiling People. 2000. Contributing screenplay and script writer for tourism video as member of the North Sulawesi Pacific Asia Travel Association (warning: colonial themes, stereotypes).
Baldridge, J., ed. 2001. English Communication 2. Nonsan: Konyang University Press. Contributed lessons, layout, and editing for Konyang University’s 2nd year English textbook.
Baldridge, J. 1996. “Making Your Network Work.” Junshin Jyoshi Tanki Daigaku Kiyo (Journal of Junshin Women’s Junior College). Vol. 34, No. 1.