Sin Patrón: Stories from Argentina's Worker-Run Factories [Paperback]

lavaca collective (Author), Naomi Klein (Foreword), Avi Lewis (Foreword)

Book Description

Publication Date: May 1, 2007

The worker-run factories of Argentina offer an inspirational example of a struggle for social change that has achieved a real victory against corporate globalization.

Lavaca is an Argentine editorial and activist collective. Naomi Klein is an award-winning journalist and author of No Logo.Avi Lewis is an author and filmmaker. Klein and Lewis co-produced The Take, a film about Argentina’s occupied factories.

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About the Author

lavaca is an editorial and activist collective, formed in 2001 in Buenos Aires, with the aim of chronicling, sharing the experiences of, and building solidarity with, social movements in Argentina and beyond. Naomi Klein is an award-winning journalist and author of the international best seller No Logo: Taking Aim at the Brand Bullies. In 2004, she released The Take, a film about Argentina's occupied factories, co-produced with director Avi Lewis. Avi Lewis is an author and filmmaker, who's most recent project was The Take, a film about Argentina's occupied factories, co-produced with collaborator Naomi Klein.

Product Details

• Paperback: 320 pages
• Publisher: Haymarket Books (May 1, 2007)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1931859434
• ISBN-13: 978-1931859431
• Product Dimensions: 7.8 x 5.2 x 0.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 7.2 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #826,251 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Great book!!!!, August 4, 2008

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Kim C. "Kim" (San Mateo, CA USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Sin Patrón: Stories from Argentina's Worker-Run Factories (Paperback)

This book is a series of essays by various people in the workers' movement in Argentina. Some are better than others, but they all come together to give you a clear idea of what is going on. It is so heartening to see the workers, slowly but surely, winning their dignity and right to work to support themselves.
The introduction is by Naomi Klein and Avi Lewis, who made a documentary of the workers' movement called The Take. If you can find a copy of that, watch it too!
The book is an easy read -- I was so entranced I went through it pretty fast because I couldn't stop reading it.

2 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Wave of the future?, March 18, 2008

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Jay C. Hansen "delete" - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Sin Patrón: Stories from Argentina's Worker-Run Factories (Paperback)

This book takes no particular ideological stands, but presents a phenomenon unique to Argentina(for now, I hope) which presents a promise
to be an antidote to "free"-market globalism.