By Brian Byrnes, CNN
Buenos Aires – Maria Velasquez was in need of work. She had no prospects in her hometown of La Paz, Bolivia, so when she was offered a bus ticket to Argentina and assured of steady work and a home there, she jumped at the chance. Read more
Las cooperativas están formadas por costureros que dejaron de trabajar en condiciones de esclavitud.Cuando se habla de talleres textiles clandestinos y trabajadores explotados por grandes marcas indumentarias, se suele pensar en los países del sudeste asiático, donde el problema del trabajo esclavo es endémico.
No Chains 2009 First Contest. No Chains is a new line of sweatshop-free clothing produced by worker-owned cooperatives in Buenos Aires and Bangkok.