

Hungry for work. Stories of workers’ gastronomy
The archive collects stories of workers who lived in the years of Piedmont’s transaction of the productive system, which started in the small “boite” in the villages and developed in large factories. The focus of the stories is the meal time, transported and consumed in the “barachin”, small metallic mess tins that were completely erased first by the introduction of canteens and then by the economical crisis in the ‘90.

Mario Gheddo
Una vita da barachin
Video table of contents
- Presentation
- Factory workers and lunch boxs
- Soups and Pasta with beans
- Trade unions and the workers' life conditions
- Barachin: warming food up
- Wine and coffee
- The FIAT and its dinnerer
- Lunch box between poverty and affluence
- Factory workers' career
- Christmas at the Fiat
- Time for eating
- Jokes
- The working class world: gastronomy, racism, and life condiction
- The dinnerer at the FIAT
- Songs
- Time and space
- Nostalgia
- Vermouth
Interview information
Country: IT
Region: Piemonte
City: Torino
District: TO
Altitude: 182m s.l.m.
Wikipedia: https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Torino
Mario Gheddo
Date of birth: 07-01-1931
City: Tronzano Vercellese
Profession: Pensioner
Languages: Italiano
Document by: Luca Percivalle, Luca Ghiardo
Video by: Luca Ghiardo, Davide Porporato
Created: 23-01-2016