Elsa Törnström - friställd 1970

Overview

A textile factory is closed in Sweden, hundreds of seamstresses are laid off with few opportunities for new work. However, the employer continues to make profits. Now in Holland, in a newly built factory, with a young, underpaid, female workforce. The film, which was made in 1970, was then a statement against Sweden's accession to the EC. But the pattern is recognizable. Today, it is the women in Korea and India, among others, who sew our clothes.