The Take

• 7.5 Documentary
• 2004-09-03
• 87 minutes mins

In suburban Buenos Aires, thirty unemployed ceramics workers walk into their idle factory, roll out sleeping mats and refuse to leave. All they want is to re-start the silent machines. But this simple act - the take - has the power to turn the globalization debate on its head. Armed only with slingshots and an abiding faith in shop-floor democracy, the workers face off against the bosses, bankers and a whole system that sees their beloved factories as nothing more than scrap metal for sale.

Starring:

Matilde Adorno (Herself - Worker)

Director:

Avi Lewis

Writer:

Naomi Klein