Sweatshop Workers in Buenos Aires: The Political Economy of Human Trafficking in a Peripheral Country

摘要: In March 2006, a fire broke out in medium-sized garment workshop the working-class Caballito neighbourhood of Buenos Aires, Argentina, leading to death two Bolivian workers and four children. All them were living place with another 60 people. They could not escape from sweatshop because doors locked. The tragedy triggered disclosure thousands ‘local sweatshops’ (Montero y Arcos, unpublished) that supply small, medium large local international brands. 2010, Under-Secretariat Labour calculated Aires city alone there about 5,000 sweatshops (Lieutier, 2010), at least double number Greater Aires.1