IMPA, metallurgic and plastic industry founded in 1910, is today the oldest recovered factory in Buenos Aires. After the failure the workers organized in a cooperative occupied the building and reactivated the production since 2009, even before the Argentina's crisis in 2001 which gave further impetus to the largest movement of self-managed factories in the world. In Argentina there are now more than 200 enterprises managed by workers after the failure, including industries and service companies, they have created a network of mutual support that ensures sustainability.
Since 2002, the revision of national bankruptcy laws, decrees the possibility for workers organized in a cooperative to take under their management the business.
A tribute to these heroes of globalization, offering hope and dignity to the value of work in the contemporary capitalism.
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