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+# Factor 5: Our present conjuncture 
 
-## The 4th Factor: the Mental Load
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+This final section collects documents, fragments and insights that connect the past stories gathered in these pages with the present time. The last two decades have been marked by a new cycle of automation and other technological changes in the ways people work, heal, live and protest. Without pretenses of being exaustive, materials are organized following the four red threads introduced in the previous sections: techniques of exploitation; health and environmental conditions; gendered discrimination; and forms of rebellion. 
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+# The story from which we start: The 4th factor, the mental load
 
 *The Work Environment* first produced at FIAT and *Against Noxiousness* of Porto Marghera agreed in identifying one mid-term tendency crucially relevant in our present times: mental noxiousness. 
 
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 “Against Noxiousness” (Comitato Politico, 28 February 1971).
 
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 We know today that, far from diminishing or disappearing, the first three factors of hazards have been delocalized in regions of the word where laws around health, workers' safety and environmental pollution are lax, non-existent or avoidable through corruption. However, the emphasis on the mental factors impacting our lives at work intercepted precisely what the workers of Lebole experienced with the introduction of MTM methods, the process of "modernization" of the assembly line and management  - soon renamed the "scientific organization of exploitation" - with the current working conditions under the algorithmic management regime.
 
 As one textile worker interviewed by Luigi Firrao put it, 
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+# How are we? On the degradation of planetary health
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+(re)Politicisng experise, over and over again 
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+# The machinic feminine
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+# Contemporary healthcare struggles 
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