Angela, Rossana, Anna, Daniela, Giuseppina, Silvana, Giovanna, Assunta, Tania, Maria Elena. Each of them had a job, but all of them lost it because their companies chose to leave them at home, or they closed or relocated. Their stories are told in the book Hello, you are fired, by Edi Lazzi (general secretary of Fiom – CGIL of Turin), with a preface by Francesca Re David, just released by Edizioni Gruppo Abele.
Ten women representing all the others: according to Fiom data, from 2008 to today, only in the Turin engineering sector, thirty-two thousand jobs were lost and three hundred and seventy companies have closed their doors permanently, because they have gone bankrupt or because the activity has ceased.
There are many reasons, and they are precisely the ones we read about every day: from the economic crisis to relocations. At the expense, above all, of women: in December 2020 female employment fell to 48.6%, against 67.5% men. And the sense of community has also been lost: personal relationships have also become more precarious.
“From the interviews, this concept emerges clearly,” writes the author. «Before, one felt part of a community in which a common destiny was identified. There was the awareness that we were all part of the same house. Today the dominant feeling is the vulnerability of one’s condition and this vulnerability brings with it a feeling of fear. Fear of losing what little is left with the risk of a war between the poor, as said by one of the interviewees who found herself, in spite of herself, experiencing it firsthand “.
The solidarity that was breathed in the past has turned into rivalry between colleagues, in distrust. “Unfortunately, the lack of work brings with it the absence of material freedom which determines the lack of the freedom of self-determination, of“ raising one’s head ”, and thus the social ties capable of uniting people are broken in order to oppose prevarications. The result is there for all to see: one generalized compression of labor rights, which is experienced as if it were a normal thing by the vast majority of people, even by those who are more combative by nature ».
The testimonies also touch very delicate keys, recurrent in the biographies of those who lost their jobs. “I am the black keys of suicide and psycho-physical discomfort. Not being able to bear the weight of something that oppresses you, not being able to withstand the feeling of terror that takes hold of you, the fear of not being able to go on, of losing everything you have earned in a life of sacrifice, like home and loved ones ».
The aim of the book is to open a window on the reality of female work, but also to give voice to the intelligence and know-how of female workers, to try to rethinking industry, through ecological reconversion, the ethics of choices business and an active labor policy. “For stories to become a platform”, explains Francesca Re David, “we need to give them strength together”.
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