Alexis Cordesse and Zoé Varier, Du beau travail !

Du beau travail !

Alexis Cordesse and Zoé Varier

Publisher
Trans Photographic Press
Year
2006
ISBN
9782913176348
Specifications
Hardcover, with a 26-minute CD-Rom of interviews conducted by Zoé Varier
21 x 26 cm
80 pages
22 portraits of laid-off workers in CMYK on 170 g coated paper
Text by François Bon

“Once again, once too many, what is thrown away affects us because it is the most everyday, the most necessary: a profitable plant, a product everyone knows because these are the biscuits we give our children. Proof that even the workers themselves are called P'tits LU, after the name of what they made. The history of the plant, the cynicism of the group's owners, the history of the conflict — these are figures, and figures do not satisfy us.

Anyone who has children knows how much we want the best for them. We have to feed them, and it is not a matter of bare subsistence: what establishes community and sharing is that feeding oneself is also a social act. Food is the bond of pleasure we have with our children, and with the children of the world, in learning it. The working hands at LU worked for everyone; they worked for our children.” — François Bon

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