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tempting repairs to the machinery.

The Arpagut incident ensured that we thought differently. If
we sold these machines no worker would get the money that was
owed to them, and at the same time was all had to work and there
was no guarantee that we would not confront the same problems

at these workplaces. Again we had no health or job security in
these factories, we could sell
enough to meet minimum
wage but again we would be
eating dry bread. Here we
had no boss and would be
working for ourselves.
Whatever work you did for
a boss, he would be wonder-

ing what to spend your
money on behind your
back. The work and the pro-
duction we did was for our-
selves. At the same time if we lacked a boss, we could make
produce sweaters more cheaply without the bosses’ need for a
profit. We became excited about this and researched examples of

where something like this had been done before.

In 2011 after the crisis, there were a great many occupations
in Argentina and there were factories working without a boss. We
got our hands on Metin YEGIN’s documentaries about factories
without bosses. We too contacted Yegin to invite him to our oc-
cupied factory. Yegin gave us information about factories without
bosses in Argentina and Latin America. He sent us information

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