Qualla: Brukman factory https://qualla.com/brukman-factory en-us © 2026 Bendyline Wed, 08 Jul 2026 02:39:57 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_m/6/9/y/7/brukman-factory-wp/hero-small.webp Qualla: Brukman factory https://qualla.com/brukman-factory Brukman factory: Introduction https://qualla.com/brukman-factory/ Photo credit Brian Zbriger, CC BY-SA 2.5. On the night of 18 December 2001, about fifty workers — most of them women, most of them seamstresses — decided not to go home. They had come to the Brukman factory on Jujuy Street that day to ask for a small travel allowance, just enough to cover the bus fare to work. Their wages had been cut so deeply they could no longer afford to show up. The owners promised to return with money and left. They never came back. So the workers asked the doorman for the keys, spent the night inside, and in the morning did the only thing they knew how to do: they turned on the machines and went back to work.

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]]> Sun, 21 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/6/9/y/7/brukman-factory-wp/69y7-brukman-factory-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Brukman factory: A Factory Coming Apart https://qualla.com/brukman-factory/ Photo credit Brian Zbriger, CC BY-SA 2.5. Brukman had sewn men's suits in the Balvanera barrio for half a century. By the late 1990s it was failing along with the country. Argentina's long economic crisis, deepening from recession in 1998 toward outright collapse, had hollowed the business out. Sales fell, debts mounted,...

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]]> Sun, 21 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/6/9/y/7/brukman-factory-wp/69y7-brukman-factory-a-factory-coming-apart.mp3 0:06 2 full Brukman factory: Running It Themselves https://qualla.com/brukman-factory/ Photo credit Brian Zbriger, CC BY-SA 2.5. What began as a desperate sit-in became something none of them had planned. With the owners gone, the workers simply kept producing. They organized themselves into an assembly, found new clients, and slowly paid down the company's debts. They voted on a fair wage and set it thems...

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]]> Sun, 21 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/6/9/y/7/brukman-factory-wp/69y7-brukman-factory-running-it-themselves.mp3 0:06 3 full Brukman factory: The Fence on Jujuy Street https://qualla.com/brukman-factory/ Photo credit Brian Zbriger, CC BY-SA 2.5. The owners sought to reclaim the building, and the courts obliged. The final eviction order came from Judge Jorge Rimondi, and at midnight on 18 April 2003 more than 300 federal police forced the workers out. They did not go quietly into defeat. By dawn, 3,000 supporters had gath...

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]]> Sun, 21 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/6/9/y/7/brukman-factory-wp/69y7-brukman-factory-the-fence-on-jujuy-street.mp3 0:06 4 full Brukman factory: A Movement Made of Many Hands https://qualla.com/brukman-factory/ Photo credit Brian Zbriger, CC BY-SA 2.5. Brukman was never alone. When the eviction came, the workers of the Zanon ceramics factory in distant Neuquén — another recovered plant run by its employees — blocked a national highway in solidarity. On 21 April, provincial police attacked demonstrators outside Brukman, leaving ...

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