Textiles workshops in Buenos Aires and suburbs An advertisement: “Sewer needed”. Yacuiba, Bolivia. A taxi waiting in the border. Orán, Argentina. After a 25-hour journey, the garment makers arrive in Buenos Aires and get out in Liniers. From the telephone booths they see the corner where they collect garment makers without documents, the public job exchange of Bajo Flores. The vans of the workshop owners position them along each façade: houses with gates and bits of cloth discarded among the pavement rubbish. Within the block stockrooms and workshops in apartments, warehouses, cellars and mezzanines. Fluorescent lighting and a collection of overlocks, single-needle and double-needle machines, buttonsewers, buttonholers, bartacking, chainstitch and coverstich machines. A bathroom. Partition walls, cots, mattresses and tents in yards and terraces. From the attempted family-scale domestic workshop, half-way between economic emancipation and self sacrifice, to clandestine factories with 50 workers living on site. Outsourcing by major brands leads to the importing of the Asian production model including slave labour and tuberculosis. Dismembered mass production produces considerable surplus for the black market. All leaving through the same façades, secret miniature factories.