"Working situations" in Hyvinkää

"...but I have got used to it and as I always say: everything is not so bad, after all" (woman, age 76, about her bad sight caused by chemicals used the early days of the textile factory).

Hyvinkää is a small town north of Helsinki with a long industrial tradition. Lots of people were left unemployed when the textile factory moved abroad in 1989.

In 1996 I interviewed old workers and wrote exerpts from their stories on pieces on wood. These pieces were placed in different places in the town centre.