judicial issues in Crdoba. The newspaper, Comercio y Justcia , was sold by its long-time family owners to a conglomerate during the 1990s wave of corporate consolidation of Argentine media. The new corporate owners hired managers at enormous salaries, stopped paying employee salaries and staged a fake robbery that emptied the office of most of its equipment. The workers brought in their own computers so the newspaper could continue to publish, then went on strike when the new owners failed to pay them for five months. Finally, the workers went back in to restart the newspaper themselves, making it a going concern after a great struggle. In contrast to other media outlets cutting staff and quality, the Comercio y Justcia collective maintained the size of its staff and its quality, more than doubling circulation in its first year. In almost all of the Argentine cooperatives everybody earns the same amount, and none hires outside managers -- the cooperatives are governed by assemblies of the entire workforce with their decisions carried out by managers who are elected from their own ranks and who serve limited, specified terms. In a separate interview in Sin Patrn , one of the Comercio y Justcia collective members said of the new way of working: "Inside, we have a setup that goes against the logic of capitalism. A humanized work rgime, a production arrangement decided by workers themselves. In relationships outside the institution, we can't detach ourselves from the economy's logic, but we give ourselves the