Necchi, assembly line

By the late 1950s Necchi of Pavia employed around 5,000 workers, a significant share of them women concentrated in the assembly and testing departments.

The assembly line binds each one's effort to the rhythm of all: the worker no longer works alongside the machine, but inside its rhythm.

In Turin as in Pavia, in the post-war factory women wore the same overalls as men but went home to a second shift: the domestic one.

In 1955 the metalworkers' contract was one of the first in Italy to formally introduce piece-rate timing, a pillar of the Italian Taylorist system.