At the sewing machine, seen from behind

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At the sewing machine, seen from behind

Present, but faceless

By Mirella Iurato

108mm f/4.0 1/200s ISO 400
Camera: Canon EOS 1100D — 70-300mm
Date: 2025-10-21
Italy's fashion-textile industry employs over 400,000 workers, the great majority of them women: a network of micro-workshops, home piecework and sub-contractors that sustains the added value of 'Made in Italy'.
Home-based work is not a survival of a pre-industrial past: it is the flexible and invisible form contemporary capital takes when it wants to pay less and control more.