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Rice-weeders at work in the Lomellina

The paddy field as an open-air factory

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Farmworkers in a Lomellina rice paddy

Bent backs, knee-deep in water

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Worker at the welt-stitcher — Vigevano shoe factory

One machine, one shoe at a time

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Stitching department — Vigevano shoe factory

The army of stitchers, in window light

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Necchi, packing department

Pavia, c. 1950 — destination New York

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Carding department — Pavia-area hat factory

The fibre that becomes felt

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Necchi, assembly line

The Pavia plant, c. 1950

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Necchi, foundry workers

The heat at the base of the chain

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Precision assembly department — Pavia

Women's hands on the components

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Old workshop — Necchi, Pavia, 1949

Machines lined up, before the shift

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Countryside around Codevilla, 1956

A column of labourers among the Oltrepò vineyards

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Cascami Seta, view of the plant in 1904

The start of industrial life, before the workers' village grew up

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Cascami Seta, panoramic view of the plant

A city within a city, at the edge of Vigevano

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Women workers at textile spinning frames

Four hands, eight spindles, an entire factory

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Textile spinning hall

An early 20th-century Po Valley spinning mill

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Cascami Seta, the cocoon racks

The raw material, before it becomes thread

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Cascami Seta, the sorting

Hands on the raw material

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Hay cart, Po Valley countryside

A haymaking scene, early-to-mid 20th century

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3rd Silk-Waste Spinning Mill — Circular Machines Department

The official photograph of the department's workforce

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Job interview: man, woman

Same candidate, two different questionings

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The cleaning worker and the luxury window

Cleaning what shines, staying in shadow

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Woman cleaning, against the light

Care work, in shadow

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The mop, the cot, the walker

The triple shift of care, in a few square metres

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Glovo rider with a child on the handlebars

The algorithm, the child, the city

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“Soldi finiti” — Out of money

The calendar as a ledger of scarcity

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At the sewing machine, seen from behind

Present, but faceless

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The old hand beneath the machine

The machine's real engine

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Heels and broom, two worlds on the same ground

Class difference encoded in footwear

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Bread in a wheelbarrow, derelict space

An invisible gesture of solidarity

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Boots and spade

The absent worker, the trace they leave

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Champagne and broom

Two worlds, one metre apart

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The second shift, on the paperwork

When the day ends, another day begins

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The cleaning shift, after the market

When the public has gone

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The glove and the bare hand

Who is protected, who is not

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“Dreaming is free”

The advertised paradise and the dark room

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Resources

The body as raw material

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The tourists

What the journey does not see

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Pomegranate vendor

Stall, transport and workplace — all in a single cart, in a Moroccan market

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Donkeys with hides at the tannery, Morocco

A leather supply chain at work without interruption since the Middle Ages

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The egg stall

The small trader's everyday effort

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The old man at the wholesaler's

A figure of informal work in Morocco's souks

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The chimney, from the train

The Italian industrial landscape in transit

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Truck at rest, at sunset

Logistics as a landscape, on the city edge

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The Ospedale Maggiore payroll book, 1948

A parallel exhibition: the labour archive as artefact

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Elderly man under the portico

Still in motion, still part of the urban economy

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Shout in the march

CGIL demonstration, Rome — 25 October 2025

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Chinese garment workshop

The submerged tier of the textile supply chain

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Dachshund with CGIL scarf

CGIL demonstration, Rome — 25 October 2025

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In front of the exhibition

How much of others' suffering really reaches us?

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Arms + Health + Happiness

CGIL demonstration, Rome — 25 October 2025

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River of red flags

CGIL demonstration, Rome — 25 October 2025

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Children with the peace flag

CGIL demonstration, Rome — 25 October 2025

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Megaphone and keffiyeh

CGIL demonstration, Rome — 25 October 2025

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Student sit-in

CGIL demonstration, Rome — 25 October 2025

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Family in red

CGIL demonstration, Rome — 25 October 2025

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CHANGE

Palestine solidarity march — 3 May 2025

Bread, Work and Dignity