This book collects photographs taken by Pietro Perotti – a worker at the Fiat Mirafiori plant in Turin – who, starting in 1985, created protest writings and drawings in the factory bathrooms to oppose the oppressive policies of the company and of the FIAT boss Agnelli. This widespread and personal form of protest followed years of activism in class struggles and strikes during the previous decade.

Perotti systematically photographed the drawings and writings, secretly bringing a camera into the factory and timing the shutter release with the automated toilet flushes to muffle the sound of the click.

Perotti’s story starts at a precise moment in time, at the beginning of 1985, and in a precise location, the FIAT factory at Torino Mirafiori, transporting the reader back in time. Assembled for the very first time in this volume, here is a working-class story that was first scrawled and scribbled in the large factory’s toilet cubicles, and then docu­mented on photographic paper.