A series of fortunate events brought us together to work on this book. Before this joint work, we were working on quite different (but, we would come to learn, theoretically related) projects. Katie had been conducting an ethnography of “equality projects” in Hotel Bauen, a worker- run, worker- recuperated business in central Buenos Aires. For years, Katie was immersed in the organizational life of this hotel that had been closed by its private owners, occupied by its workers, and restarted as a worker cooperative. While much of her fieldwork focused on reorganization of service under worker control, she also observed the cooperative’s longterm political campaign to legalize its use of the downtown hotel. Summer after summer, she documented the actions of myriad state actors— from building inspectors and ministry staffers to judges, city council members, and national senators— who promised very different futures. While some advocated for the hotel to be expropriated by the state (which would secure its tenancy), others threatened closure, eviction, and the almost certain dissolution of the cooperative. As state agents simultaneously proffered hope and fear, members of the cooperative were left in a legal limbo that is still unresolved at the time of this writing.