Activist journalist Naomi Kline wrote the basis for this interesting documentary on worker control in Argentina. The great capitalist myth is that a factory requires demanding bosses to oversee a companie's sucess.... the worker resistant movement in Argentina proves this wrong. When a company decides that it is more profitable to just abandon a factory (and the workers) and start a new one somewhere else, the workers have a different idea. They infiltrate the abandoned factory and form a democratic worker's union and run the show themselves. This film documents the worker takeover of several factories in Argentina and the political and economic resistance from the wealthy former factory owners. The police are essentially a tool of those in power and it becomes a struggle between the people and the rich.
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