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The article focuses on a study examining coercive labor in Latin America and resistance of workers. It talks about historiographical discussions on the theme of Workers' associative practices prior to the emergence of the Labor movement in Montevideo around 1870. It talks about the shortage of workers in Montevideo and the use of coercion on the local workforce and foreigners brought in to work, along with resistance strategies including refusal to work and cessation of activities.

In recent times, in different parts of the world, we have witnessed a renewed interest in worker cooperatives that arise through recovering a company in crisis. Nevertheless, this article argues that recovering companies as worker cooperatives is not a new trend in the economic history of Uruguay but, rather, a continuation of earlier practices Faced with capitalist companies in crisis and the possibility of ending up unemployed, the opportunity to organize new self-managed companies presents itself to the workers. This article shows the long history of the phenomenon of recovering companies in the form of worker cooperatives, drawing on an analysis of the documents in the archive of the Uruguayan worker cooperative federation (Federación de Cooperativas de Producción del Uruguay -- FCPU), on interviews with knowledgeable members of the cooperatives and on a historical review. For presentation purposes, the results are divided into three periods of time which represent three different stages in the history of recovering companies as worker cooperatives. The conclusions examine to what extent recovered companies signify an opportunity for workers. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]