Bio
Marcelo Vieta is an Associate Professor in the Program in Adult Education and Community Development and Co-Director of the Centre for Learning, Social Economy & Work at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, University of Toronto. An Italo-Argentine-Canadian, Marcelo researches and teaches on the social and solidarity economy, economic democracy, new cooperativism, worker-recuperated enterprises and self-management, the sociology of work, workplace learning, political economy, and critical theory.
Regionally, he focuses on Latin America, Canada, and Italy, with growing collaborative and participatory work in other parts of the world. Marcelo is co-author of Commoning Labour and Democracy at Work: When Workers Take Over (with Dario Azzellini, Routledge, 2025) and Cooperatives at Work (with G. Cheney, M. Noyes, E. Do, J. Azkarraga, and C. Michel, Emerald, 2023), which won the Joyce Rothschild Book Prize. He is also the author of Workers’ Self-Management in Argentina:Contesting Neoliberalism by Occupying Companies, Creating Cooperatives, and Recuperating Autogestión (Brill/Haymarket, 2020), which received honorable mention for the Joyce Rothschild Book Prize.
In addition, he was the lead researcher and principal author of the report The Italian Road to Recuperating Enterprises and the Legge Marcora Framework: Italy’s Worker Buyouts in Times of Crisis (EURICSE, 2017)—the first comprehensive political-economic study of Italy’s contemporary worker buyouts, developed in collaboration with the country’s cooperative sector. Marcelo also serves as one of two North American representatives on the executive board of the International Cooperative Alliance’s Committee on Cooperative Research.