Qualla: FaSinPat https://qualla.com/fasinpat en-us © 2026 Bendyline Wed, 08 Jul 2026 02:39:57 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_res/siteimages/rsslogo.png Qualla: FaSinPat https://qualla.com/fasinpat FaSinPat: Introduction https://qualla.com/fasinpat/ The name is a quiet act of defiance. FaSinPat stands for Fabrica Sin Patrones, Factory Without Bosses, and the workers who chose it meant every word. This is a ceramic tile plant on the edge of Neuquen city, in Patagonian Argentina, and for more than two decades it has run without an owner, governed instead by the people who make the tiles. It became the most famous of Argentina's recovered factories, the businesses that workers took over and revived when their employers walked away during the country's economic collapse. Its story is one of desperation turned, slowly and stubbornly, into dignity.

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]]> Sun, 21 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/6/3/p/d/fasinpat-wp/63pd-fasinpat-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full FaSinPat: Built on Borrowed Ground https://qualla.com/fasinpat/ The factory opened in the early 1980s as Zanon, owned by businessman Luis Zanon, during the years Argentina was ruled by a military dictatorship. According to the workers' union, it was built on public land with public money from the national and provincial governments, loans tha...

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]]> Sun, 21 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/6/3/p/d/fasinpat-wp/63pd-fasinpat-built-on-borrowed-ground.mp3 0:06 2 full FaSinPat: The Lockout https://qualla.com/fasinpat/ In 2000 the workers won back control of their union and began to ask for better conditions. The owner's answer was to start letting people go, and then, in 2001, to lock the gates entirely, hoping to reopen one day with a more obedient workforce. The timing landed in the middle o...

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]]> Sun, 21 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/6/3/p/d/fasinpat-wp/63pd-fasinpat-the-lockout.mp3 0:06 3 full FaSinPat: Running It Themselves https://qualla.com/fasinpat/ Self-management could have been a brief, doomed gesture. Instead it worked. After Argentina abandoned its one-to-one peso-dollar peg in 2002, the recovered factory became profitable again, and the workers expanded it, hiring more than 170 new people and roughly doubling productio...

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