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+# Factor 3: Patriarchy 
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+This section collects documents, fragments and insights that highlight the importance of bringing a gendered perspective to the analysis of the intersection between the automation of productive process and the history of women's struggles for emancipation. 
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+# The story from which we start: Who are these women?
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 Many among Lebole workers went on to become expert trade unionists and party members often contributing to discussions around issues mainly impacting the lives of working class women. In the book *Quelle della Lebole. Frammenti di fabbrica tra interni e esterni*, for example, Patrizia Gabrielli highlights how the Leboline initiated important mobilizations demanding the city of Arezzo to provide kindergarten care for their children. But beyond the different topics thay tackled, there was something about the way in which Leboline practiced politics as a continuation of their private friendships that remains importantly gendered. The interstitial sociality that these women found at the factory was a source of political pleasure, breaking the solitudes of domestic lives. Birthday parties and gossips about relatioships intertwined with solidarity intiatives with other factories and the spontaneous strikes that punctuated these years. 
 
-In this section, we gather documents and insights that highlight the importance of bringing a gendered perspective to the analysis of the intersection between the automation of productive process and the history of women's struggles for emancipation. 
 
-## The ecofeminist battles of Laura Conti 
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+# The ecofeminist battles of Laura Conti 
 
 On 10th July 1976, there was an accident at the ICMESA plant in Meda, which is now remembered as the “Seveso tragedy”. The accident caused the emission and dispersion of a poisonous cloud of TCDD dioxin, one of the most dangerous synthetic chemicals, on the surrounding municipalities of Lower Brianza, in particular Seveso.
 Activist doctor Laura Conti goes to Seveso to follow the developments of the impacted population. In her work, she denounced the risks to the environment from accidents related to industrial activities and shaped the so-called 'Seveso Directive' (Directive 82/501/EEC), the European law for the prevention of such accidents that offers parameters for the control of the over 12 000 industrial establishments in the European Union where dangerous substances are used or stored in large quantities, mainly in the chemical and petrochemical industry.
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 In Seveso, Laura Conti’s work focused, among other things, on helping pregnant women to obtain a secure abortion, as dioxin provokes malformations in the foetus. At the time, the interruption of pregnancy was still only a possibility in case of malformations. The Seveso tragedy and the work of Laura Conti helped shape a tough conversation about therapeutic abortion and, more generally, about the notion that interrupting one’s pregancy may be a woman's free decision to begin with. It took Italy two years, or 1978, to pass a legislation on the matter. 
 
 
-## Let's talk about women, by Franca Rame and Dario Fo (1977)
+# Let's talk about women, by Franca Rame and Dario Fo (1977)
 
 In 1977, Franca Rame and Dario Fo, a couple of Italian dramagurgs and actors, stage for the first time the play in five one-acts *Parliamo di donne* (Let's talk about women). The third act, entitled 'Il pupazzo giapponese' (The Japanese puppet, jokingly deals with the rhythms of chainwork in factories and the psychological impact that such exploitation causes on the workforce - especially on women workers. The latter are forced to constantly take tranquillisers to maintain a minimum of efficiency carrying out exasperating tasks and to withstand the management's abuse. In the plot, one of the female workers, by dint of tranquillisers, has reduced herself to a form of insanity, for which she is teased by her colleagues. Their joke is to make her believe that in Japanese factories, in order to allow the employees to vent their repressed anger, there is a puppet with a silhouette identical to that of the manager; and that this puppet can be attacked whenever the anger reaches the limit of endurance. Faced with the girl's amazement, her colleagues assure her that this system, already popular in Japan, will soon be made available in Italian factories as well. As chance would have it, the manager, while attempting to repair a faulty piece of machinery, is temporarely paralysed by an electric shock, and so he is placed in an armchair while waiting for the doctor to arrive. As the other workers leave, the girl, seeing the manager in this frozen condition, mistakes him for the famous Japanese puppet and takes out her restrained rage on him.