The Red Swing

'Keyline' and the Amazing Life of a Female Factory Worker

Adriano Moraglio, Mariacristina Gribaudi

• Publisher: Rubbettino Editore
• eBook ISBN:
  9788849862706
• Year: 2020

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?"

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