From 1b6a1fad94a725db13622e78e864e44caadea0ef Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Valeria Graziano Date: Tue, 27 Sep 2022 02:44:50 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] !publish! --- content/factor/faintinginjections.md | 2 ++ 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+) diff --git a/content/factor/faintinginjections.md b/content/factor/faintinginjections.md index 53c93f5..717e3a5 100644 --- a/content/factor/faintinginjections.md +++ b/content/factor/faintinginjections.md @@ -5,6 +5,8 @@ has_items=["item3.md", "item4.md"] # Fainting & Injections: Struggles at the intersections of Work, Health and Environment +![](static/images/Lebole_ammalate.jpg) + In the mid-1960s, as MTM was rolled out across the entire production line, the health of the Leboline (informal name used by and for the workers at Lebole) begun to take a toll. Faintings, including mass fainting episodes, nervous breakdowns, and depression begun to spread. One of the workers reported how she couldn’t stop thinking about the same movements that she had to repeat all day long even when she was at home or in her sleep. Another one decided to end her own lifeand walk under a train during a break. In an attempt to limit the absences claimed for illness, the company doctors would frequently prescribe booster injections. As workers’ struggles and unionization efforts grew stronger and stronger across the country, the Leboline also begun to organize against the conditions of exploitation that impacted their lives.