SMO Worker soldering iron to work; evocative portrait in dynamic workshop during a welding operation in a department of the foundry Pignone in Florence occupied. When the property has decided to close the plant and lay off all the work continued in self-management for a long period; from November '53 to January '54; to ward off the specter of unemployment for 1;750 male and female workers. The unrest has raised wide solidarity; and the dispute was ended with the acquisition by Eni of disused factory by SNIA Viscose. Photo by Ando Gilardi (1921-2012) #andogilardi; Florence 1953