The Red Swing
'Keyline' and the Amazing Life of a Female Factory Worker
- English
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The Red Swing
'Keyline' and the Amazing Life of a Female Factory Worker
About this book
Summer 1965. "Mariacristina! How long have you been on that swing?" "Mum, you know I love it...". It's a summer Sunday afternoon. My mother is busy in the kitchen preparing dinner. Every now and then she casts a glance at me swinging in the garden of our house in the mountains in Usseglio. My swing is beautiful. It's red. When I swing, I see the whole world rise and fall around me. Thirty-seven years later. Massimo, my husband, has resigned from his company. One day, last spring, he came home and said with excitement in his voice: "I've found a small company that makes keys… it seems they are selling it. Should I try to buy it?". "Massimo, let's not miss this opportunity". A few days later we found ourselves in front of a notary: "Mr. Bianchi, please, sign here: from this moment on Keyline is yours". After making a toast with our glasses filled with Prosecco, Massimo asked me: "What do you think about being Keyline's Chief Executive?"
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Acknowledgment
- A Family – 1965-1970
- The Red Swing of Usseglio
- Warehouse, Home, Company
- Shocking news
- Twenty-eight years later
- Around the table
- A mysterious Adventure (1970 – 1998)
- Moving to Veneto
- I wanted to be a teacher
- Francesco
- In the Family Company
- ‘Factory’ woman
- Roberto
- A young bride
- Motherhood
- Nurse
- An unexpected meeting
- Reinventing a job
- Together
- New family, new company, 1998-2002
- Wife
- A very difficult choice
- Fighting back
- A new opportunity
- Fifteen Years later
- Report and Dinner at Harry’s
- Like a Startup, 2002-2008
- The blue factory
- An invisible crisis that burns
- The answer
- A nightmare
- Trained
- When Destiny calls, 2009-2017
- An unpredictable choice
- 23rd October 2009
- Contagion
- Bye Mum
- Young power
- Venice!!!
- 2018
- The Caorle red swing
- Our story in pictures