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In this section, we wish to 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.
## Let's talk about women, by Franca Rame and Dario Fo
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.