Abbreviations and Acronyms
| ACTRA |
Federación Autogestión, Cooperativismo y Trabajo (Federation of Self-Management, Cooperativism and Work) |
| ADS/CUT |
Agência de Desenvolvimento Solidário (Agency of Solidary Development) (Brazil) |
| AGOEC |
Asociación Gremial Obreros y Empledos de Ceamse (Association of Unionised Workers and Employees of CEAMSE) |
| ALBA |
Alianza Bolivariana para los Pueblos de Nuestra América (Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of Our America). Before 2009, the word âAlternativeâ was used instead of âAllianceâ. |
| ANERT |
Asociación Nacional de Empresas Recuperadas por sus Trabajdores (National Association of Worker-Recuperated Enterprises) (Uruguay) |
| ANTA |
Asociación Nacional de Trabajadores Autogestionados (National Association of Self-Managed Workers) |
| ANTEAG |
Associação Nacional dos Trabalhadores em Empresas de Autogestão e Participação Acionária (National Association of Workers of Self-Managed and Participatory Share Enterprises) (Brazil) |
| AOTRA |
Asociación Obrera Textil de la República Argentina (Textile Workersâ Association of the Republic of Argentina) |
| CAW |
Canadian Auto Workers |
| CCC |
Corriente Clasista y Combativa (Classist and Combative Current) |
| CEAMSE |
Coordinación Ecológica Area Metropolitana Sociedad del Estado (Ecological Coordination Metropolitan Area Society of the State) |
| CF |
Capitalist firm |
| CFI |
Cooperazione Finanza Impresa (Enterprise Finance Cooperation) (Italy) |
| CGT |
Confederación General del Trabajo de la República Argentina (General Confederation of Labour of the Republic of Argentina) |
| CGTFB |
Confederación General de Trabajadores Fabriles de Bolivia (General Confederation of Industrial Workers of Bolivia) |
| CLAP |
Camere del Lavoro Autonomo e Precario (Chamber of Autonomous and Precarious Work) (Italy) |
| CNCT |
Confederación Nacional de Cooperativas de Trabajo (National Confederation of Worker Cooperatives) |
| Confcooperative |
Confederazione Cooperative Italiane (Italian Cooperative Confederation) |
| CMC |
Co-operatives and Mutuals Canada |
| CPU |
Canadian Paperworkers Union |
| CSN |
Confédération des Sindicats Nationaux (National Confederation of Unions) (Québec) |
| CSR |
Corporate social responsibility |
| CTEP |
Confederación de Trabajadores de la EconomÃa Popular (Confederation of Workers of the Popular Economy) |
| CTA |
Central de Trabajadores de la Argentina (Argentine Workers Central) |
| CUT |
Central Ãnica dos Trabalhadores (Unified Workersâ Central) (Brazil) |
| CWCF |
Canadian Worker Co-operative Federation |
| DÄ°H |
Devrimci Ä°Åçi Hareketi (Revolutionary Workersâ Movement) (Turkey) |
| DyPRA |
Diaros y PerÃodicos Regionales Argentinos (Cooperative of Regional Argentine Newspapers and Periodicals) |
| ERT |
Empresa recuperada por sus trabajadores (worker-recuperated enterprise); also, empresa recuperada por los trabajadores (enterprise recuperated by the workers) |
| ESOP |
Employee share-ownership plan |
| EURICSE |
European Research Institute of Cooperative and Social Enterprises (Italy) |
| FACTA |
Federación Argentina de Cooperativas de Trabajadores Autogestionados (Argentine Federation of Self-Managed Worker Cooperatives) |
| FADICCRA |
Federación Asociativa de Diarios y Comunicadores Cooperativos de la República Argentina (Associational Federation of Cooperative Newspapers and Communicators of the Republic of Argentina) |
| FCPU |
Federación de Cooperativas de Producción del Uruguay (Federation of Producer Cooperatives of Uruguay) |
| FECOOTRA |
Federación de Cooperativas de Trabajo de la República Argentina (Federation of Worker Cooperatives of the Republic of Argentina) |
| FEDECABA |
Federación de Cooperativas Autogestionadas de Buenos Aires (Federation of Self-Managed Cooperatives of Buenos Aires) |
| FETERA |
Federación de Trabajadores de la EnergÃa de la República Argentina (Federation of Energy Workers of the Republic of Argentina) |
| FGB |
Federación Gráfica Bonaerense (Buenos Aires Graphics Federation) |
| FRETECO |
Frente Revoloucionario de Trabajadores de Empresas en Cogestión y Ocupadas (Revolutionary Front of Enterprises Co-managed and Occupied by Workers) (Venezuela) |
| GESTARA |
Grupo de Empresas Sociales y Trabajadores Autogestionados de la República Argentina (Group of Social Enterprises and Self-Managed Workers of the Republic of Argentina) |
| HRM |
Human Resource Management |
| HRS |
Human Relations School |
| ICOM |
Industrial Common Ownership Movement (United Kingdom) |
| ICA |
International Co-operative Alliance |
| IIFAP |
Instituto de Investigación y Formación en Administración Pública (Institute of Research and Education in Public Administration, National University of Córdoba) |
| INAES |
Instituto Nacional de Asociativismo y EconomÃa Social (National Institute for Associationalism and the Social Economy) |
| INDEC |
Instituto Nacional de EstadÃsticas y Censos (National Institute of Statistics and Census) |
| INTI |
Instituto Nacional de TecnologÃa Industrial (National Institute of Industrial Technology) |
| IMPA |
Industria Metalúrgica y Plástica Argentina (Metalurgic and Plastics Indusry of Argentina) |
| ISI |
Import substitution industrialisation |
| IWW |
Industrial Workers of the World |
| KMF |
Capital-managed firm |
| Legacoop |
Lega Nazionale delle Cooperative e Mutue (National League of Cooperatives and Mutuals) (Italy) |
| LMF |
Labour-managed firm |
| MCC |
Mondragón Cooperative Corporation |
| MERPBA |
Mesa de Empresas Recuparadas de la Provincia de Buenos Aires (Committee of Recuperated Enterprises of the Province of Buenos Aires) |
| MNER |
Movimiento Nacional de Empresas Recuperadas (National Movement of Recuperated Enterprises) |
| MNFRT |
Movimiento Nacional de Fábricas Recuperadas por los Trabajadores (National Movement of Worker-Recuperated Factories) |
| MTD |
Movimiento de Trabajadores Desocupados (Movement of Unemployed Workers) |
| MTS |
Movimento dos Trabalhadores Rurais Sem Terra (Movement of Landless Rural Workers) (Brazil) |
| NDP |
New Democratic Party (Canada) |
| NGO |
Non-governmental organisation |
| OEOC |
Ohio Employee Ownership Center |
| OSERA |
Observatorio Social sobre Empresas Recupradas y Autogestionadas (Social Observatory on Recuperated and Self-Managed Enterprises) |
| PITâCNT |
Plenario Intersindical de TrabajadoresâConvención Nacional de Trabajadores (Inter-Union Assembly of WorkersâNational Workersâ Central) |
| PJ |
Partido Justicialista (Jusiticialist Party) |
| PTS |
Partido de los Trabajadores Socialistas (Socialist Workersâ Party) |
| PyMES |
Pequeñas y medianas empresas (small- and medium-sized enterprises) (English: SMEâ¯s) |
| SAL |
Sociedades laborales (labour societies) (Spain) |
| SCOP |
Société coopérative ouvrières de production (society of workersâ cooperatives of production); also, sociétés coopératives et participatives (cooperative and participative society) (France) |
| SETIA |
Sindicato de Empleados Textiles de la Industria y Afines (Union of Employees of Textile and Related Industries) |
| SMATA |
Sindicato de Mecánicos y Afines del Transporte Automotor de la República Argentina (Union of Mechanics and Allied Automotive Transport Workers of the Republic of Argentina). |
| SMEâ¯s |
Small- and medium-sized enterprises (Spanish: PyMES) |
| SOECN |
Sindicato de Obreros y Empleados Ceramistas de Neuquén (Union of Ceramics Workers and Employees of Neuquén) |
| SOIVA |
Sindicato Obrero de la Industria del Vestido y Afines (Workersâ Union of Clothing and Related Industries) |
| SOE |
State-owned enterprise |
| SOFICOOP |
Società Finanza Cooperazione (Cooperation Finance Society) (Italy) |
| SUOEM |
Sindicato Unión Obreros y Empleados Municipales (Municipal Workersâ and Employees Union of Córdoba) |
| SPE |
Unidades/empresas de producción socialista/social (Socialist/ social production enterprise) (Venezuela) |
| SRL |
Sociedad de responsabilidad limitada (limited liability company) |
| SSE |
Social and solidarity economy |
| SYUSA |
Saneamiento y Urbanización Sociedad Anónima (Sanitation and Urbanisation Anonymous Society) |
| UAW |
United Automobile, Aerospace and Agricultural Implement Workers of America, also United Automobile Workers (United States) |
| UCR |
Unión CÃvica Radical (Radical Civic Union) |
| UE |
United Electrical, Radio and Machine Workers of America |
| UNISOL Brasil |
Central de Cooperativas e Empreendimentos Solidários de Economia Social do Brasil (Central of Cooperatives and Solidarity Enterprises of the Social Economy of Brazil) |
| UNISOL São Paulo |
União e Solidariedade das Cooperativas de São Paulo (Union and Solidarity of Cooperatives of Sao Paulo) |
| UOGC |
Unión Obrera Gráfica Cordobesa (Graphic Workersâ Union of Cordoba) |
| UOCRA |
Unón Obrera de la Construcción de la República Argentina (Construction Workersâ Union of the Republic of Argentina) |
| UOM |
Unión Obrera Metalúrgica (Metalurgical Workersâ Union) |
| UPEA |
Unión Productiva de Empresas Autogestionadas (Productive Union of Self-Managed Enterprises) |
| USFWC |
US Federation of Worker Cooperatives |
| UST |
Cooperativata de Trabajo âUnión Solidaria de Trabajadoresâ (âSolidarity Gathering of Workersâ Worker Cooperative) |
| USW |
United Steel, Paper and Forestry, Rubber, Manufacturing, Energy, Allied Industrial and Service Workers International Union, also United Steelworkers (United States, Canada, and Caribbean) |
| UTE |
Unión transitoria/temporaria de empresas (transitory/temporary association of firms) |
| UTHGRA |
Unión de Trabajadores del Turismo, Hoteleros y Gastronómicos (Union of Tourism, Hotel, and Gastronomy Workers) |
| WBO |
Worker buyouts |
| WISE |
Work-integration social enterprise |
| WOF |
worker-owned firm |