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  • TARANTO, ITALY - 22 FEBRUARY 2018: Luca Greco, an unemployed 30-years old living with his parents in Tamburi, the working-class district adjacent the ILVA steel mill, poses for a portrait, in Taranto, Italy, on February 22nd 2018.<br />
<br />
Luca Greco has worked occasionally in call centers for a minimum salary, but hasn't had a job since 2013. His 65 years-old father is unemployed  since 2003 and his mother works as a care-giver. He lives with his parents and 13 years-old brother. "I  absolutely don't see a future in Taranto or in Italy. If I leave Tamburi, I will leave the country. I see a dark, tragic future". When asked who he will vote in the upcoming Italian General Elections, Luca said: "You could still make a distinction between the political parties in the 1960's. They're all the same. The Five Stars Movement is the new thing. One could vote them to give them a chance. But I won't".<br />
<br />
Taranto, a  formerly lovely town on the Ionian Sea has for the last several decades been dominated by the ILVA steel mill, the largest steel plant in Europe. It was built by the government in the 1960s as a means of delivering jobs to the economically depressed south, but has been implicated for a cancer as dioxin and mercury have seeped into local groundwater, tainting the food supply, while poisoning the bay and its once-lucrative mussels.
    CIPG_20180222_NYT_Puglia_M3_8402.jpg
  • TARANTO, ITALY - 22 FEBRUARY 2018: Luca Greco, an unemployed 30-years old living with his parents in Tamburi, the working-class district adjacent the ILVA steel mill, poses for a portrait, in Taranto, Italy, on February 22nd 2018.<br />
<br />
Luca Greco has worked occasionally in call centers for a minimum salary, but hasn't had a job since 2013. His 65 years-old father is unemployed  since 2003 and his mother works as a care-giver. He lives with his parents and 13 years-old brother. "I  absolutely don't see a future in Taranto or in Italy. If I leave Tamburi, I will leave the country. I see a dark, tragic future". When asked who he will vote in the upcoming Italian General Elections, Luca said: "You could still make a distinction between the political parties in the 1960's. They're all the same. The Five Stars Movement is the new thing. One could vote them to give them a chance. But I won't".<br />
<br />
Taranto, a  formerly lovely town on the Ionian Sea has for the last several decades been dominated by the ILVA steel mill, the largest steel plant in Europe. It was built by the government in the 1960s as a means of delivering jobs to the economically depressed south, but has been implicated for a cancer as dioxin and mercury have seeped into local groundwater, tainting the food supply, while poisoning the bay and its once-lucrative mussels.
    CIPG_20180222_NYT_Puglia_M3_8394.jpg
  • TARANTO, ITALY - 22 FEBRUARY 2018: Luca Greco, an unemployed 30-years old living with his parents in Tamburi, the working-class district adjacent the ILVA steel mill, poses for a portrait at the Mini Bar in Taranto, Italy, on February 22nd 2018.<br />
<br />
Luca Greco has worked occasionally in call centers for a minimum salary, but hasn't had a job since 2013. His 65 years-old father is unemployed  since 2003 and his mother works as a care-giver. He lives with his parents and 13 years-old brother. "I  absolutely don't see a future in Taranto or in Italy. If I leave Tamburi, I will leave the country. I see a dark, tragic future". When asked who he will vote in the upcoming Italian General Elections, Luca said: "You could still make a distinction between the political parties in the 1960's. They're all the same. The Five Stars Movement is the new thing. One could vote them to give them a chance. But I won't".<br />
<br />
Taranto, a  formerly lovely town on the Ionian Sea has for the last several decades been dominated by the ILVA steel mill, the largest steel plant in Europe. It was built by the government in the 1960s as a means of delivering jobs to the economically depressed south, but has been implicated for a cancer as dioxin and mercury have seeped into local groundwater, tainting the food supply, while poisoning the bay and its once-lucrative mussels.
    CIPG_20180222_NYT_Puglia_M3_8336.jpg
  • TARANTO, ITALY - 22 FEBRUARY 2018: Luca Greco, an unemployed 30-years old living with his parents in Tamburi, the working-class district adjacent the ILVA steel mill, poses for a portrait at the Mini Bar in Taranto, Italy, on February 22nd 2018.<br />
<br />
Luca Greco has worked occasionally in call centers for a minimum salary, but hasn't had a job since 2013. His 65 years-old father is unemployed  since 2003 and his mother works as a care-giver. He lives with his parents and 13 years-old brother. "I  absolutely don't see a future in Taranto or in Italy. If I leave Tamburi, I will leave the country. I see a dark, tragic future". When asked who he will vote in the upcoming Italian General Elections, Luca said: "You could still make a distinction between the political parties in the 1960's. They're all the same. The Five Stars Movement is the new thing. One could vote them to give them a chance. But I won't".<br />
<br />
Taranto, a  formerly lovely town on the Ionian Sea has for the last several decades been dominated by the ILVA steel mill, the largest steel plant in Europe. It was built by the government in the 1960s as a means of delivering jobs to the economically depressed south, but has been implicated for a cancer as dioxin and mercury have seeped into local groundwater, tainting the food supply, while poisoning the bay and its once-lucrative mussels.
    CIPG_20180222_NYT_Puglia_M3_8330.jpg
  • TARANTO, ITALY - 22 FEBRUARY 2018: <br />
A banner saying: "No health, no job? No vote" is seen here at the entrance of the ILVA steel mill in Taranto, Italy, on February 22nd 2018.<br />
<br />
Taranto, a  formerly lovely town on the Ionian Sea has for the last several decades been dominated by the ILVA steel mill, the largest steel plant in Europe. It was built by the government in the 1960s as a means of delivering jobs to the economically depressed south, but has been implicated for a cancer as dioxin and mercury have seeped into local groundwater, tainting the food supply, while poisoning the bay and its once-lucrative mussels.
    CIPG_20180222_NYT_Puglia_M3_8225.jpg
  • TARANTO, ITALY - 22 FEBRUARY 2018: Raffaella Loperfido (46), a union activist distributing flyers, waits for employees of the ILVA steel mill at the exit to tell them not to vote in the upcoming Italian General Elections, in Taranto, Italy, on February 22nd 2018.<br />
<br />
The banner on the left says: "No health, no job? No vote".<br />
<br />
Taranto, a  formerly lovely town on the Ionian Sea has for the last several decades been dominated by the ILVA steel mill, the largest steel plant in Europe. It was built by the government in the 1960s as a means of delivering jobs to the economically depressed south, but has been implicated for a cancer as dioxin and mercury have seeped into local groundwater, tainting the food supply, while poisoning the bay and its once-lucrative mussels.
    CIPG_20180222_NYT_Puglia_M3_8019.jpg
  • TARANTO, ITALY - 22 FEBRUARY 2018: Luca Greco, an unemployed 30-years old living with his parents in Tamburi, the working-class district adjacent the ILVA steel mill, poses for a portrait, in Taranto, Italy, on February 22nd 2018.<br />
<br />
Luca Greco has worked occasionally in call centers for a minimum salary, but hasn't had a job since 2013. His 65 years-old father is unemployed  since 2003 and his mother works as a care-giver. He lives with his parents and 13 years-old brother. "I  absolutely don't see a future in Taranto or in Italy. If I leave Tamburi, I will leave the country. I see a dark, tragic future". When asked who he will vote in the upcoming Italian General Elections, Luca said: "You could still make a distinction between the political parties in the 1960's. They're all the same. The Five Stars Movement is the new thing. One could vote them to give them a chance. But I won't".<br />
<br />
Taranto, a  formerly lovely town on the Ionian Sea has for the last several decades been dominated by the ILVA steel mill, the largest steel plant in Europe. It was built by the government in the 1960s as a means of delivering jobs to the economically depressed south, but has been implicated for a cancer as dioxin and mercury have seeped into local groundwater, tainting the food supply, while poisoning the bay and its once-lucrative mussels.
    CIPG_20180222_NYT_Puglia_M3_8407.jpg
  • TARANTO, ITALY - 22 FEBRUARY 2018: Luca Greco, an unemployed 30-years old living with his parents in Tamburi, the working-class district adjacent the ILVA steel mill, poses for a portrait, in Taranto, Italy, on February 22nd 2018.<br />
<br />
Luca Greco has worked occasionally in call centers for a minimum salary, but hasn't had a job since 2013. His 65 years-old father is unemployed  since 2003 and his mother works as a care-giver. He lives with his parents and 13 years-old brother. "I  absolutely don't see a future in Taranto or in Italy. If I leave Tamburi, I will leave the country. I see a dark, tragic future". When asked who he will vote in the upcoming Italian General Elections, Luca said: "You could still make a distinction between the political parties in the 1960's. They're all the same. The Five Stars Movement is the new thing. One could vote them to give them a chance. But I won't".<br />
<br />
Taranto, a  formerly lovely town on the Ionian Sea has for the last several decades been dominated by the ILVA steel mill, the largest steel plant in Europe. It was built by the government in the 1960s as a means of delivering jobs to the economically depressed south, but has been implicated for a cancer as dioxin and mercury have seeped into local groundwater, tainting the food supply, while poisoning the bay and its once-lucrative mussels.
    CIPG_20180222_NYT_Puglia_M3_8400.jpg
  • TARANTO, ITALY - 22 FEBRUARY 2018: Luca Greco, an unemployed 30-years old living with his parents in Tamburi, the working-class district adjacent the ILVA steel mill, poses for a portrait, in Taranto, Italy, on February 22nd 2018.<br />
<br />
Luca Greco has worked occasionally in call centers for a minimum salary, but hasn't had a job since 2013. His 65 years-old father is unemployed  since 2003 and his mother works as a care-giver. He lives with his parents and 13 years-old brother. "I  absolutely don't see a future in Taranto or in Italy. If I leave Tamburi, I will leave the country. I see a dark, tragic future". When asked who he will vote in the upcoming Italian General Elections, Luca said: "You could still make a distinction between the political parties in the 1960's. They're all the same. The Five Stars Movement is the new thing. One could vote them to give them a chance. But I won't".<br />
<br />
Taranto, a  formerly lovely town on the Ionian Sea has for the last several decades been dominated by the ILVA steel mill, the largest steel plant in Europe. It was built by the government in the 1960s as a means of delivering jobs to the economically depressed south, but has been implicated for a cancer as dioxin and mercury have seeped into local groundwater, tainting the food supply, while poisoning the bay and its once-lucrative mussels.
    CIPG_20180222_NYT_Puglia_M3_8387.jpg
  • TARANTO, ITALY - 22 FEBRUARY 2018: Luca Greco, an unemployed 30-years old living with his parents in Tamburi, the working-class district adjacent the ILVA steel mill, poses for a portrait at the Mini Bar in Taranto, Italy, on February 22nd 2018.<br />
<br />
Luca Greco has worked occasionally in call centers for a minimum salary, but hasn't had a job since 2013. His 65 years-old father is unemployed  since 2003 and his mother works as a care-giver. He lives with his parents and 13 years-old brother. "I  absolutely don't see a future in Taranto or in Italy. If I leave Tamburi, I will leave the country. I see a dark, tragic future". When asked who he will vote in the upcoming Italian General Elections, Luca said: "You could still make a distinction between the political parties in the 1960's. They're all the same. The Five Stars Movement is the new thing. One could vote them to give them a chance. But I won't".<br />
<br />
Taranto, a  formerly lovely town on the Ionian Sea has for the last several decades been dominated by the ILVA steel mill, the largest steel plant in Europe. It was built by the government in the 1960s as a means of delivering jobs to the economically depressed south, but has been implicated for a cancer as dioxin and mercury have seeped into local groundwater, tainting the food supply, while poisoning the bay and its once-lucrative mussels.
    CIPG_20180222_NYT_Puglia_M3_8353.jpg
  • TARANTO, ITALY - 22 FEBRUARY 2018: Luca Greco, an unemployed 30-years old living with his parents in Tamburi, the working-class district adjacent the ILVA steel mill, poses for a portrait at the Mini Bar in Taranto, Italy, on February 22nd 2018.<br />
<br />
Luca Greco has worked occasionally in call centers for a minimum salary, but hasn't had a job since 2013. His 65 years-old father is unemployed  since 2003 and his mother works as a care-giver. He lives with his parents and 13 years-old brother. "I  absolutely don't see a future in Taranto or in Italy. If I leave Tamburi, I will leave the country. I see a dark, tragic future". When asked who he will vote in the upcoming Italian General Elections, Luca said: "You could still make a distinction between the political parties in the 1960's. They're all the same. The Five Stars Movement is the new thing. One could vote them to give them a chance. But I won't".<br />
<br />
Taranto, a  formerly lovely town on the Ionian Sea has for the last several decades been dominated by the ILVA steel mill, the largest steel plant in Europe. It was built by the government in the 1960s as a means of delivering jobs to the economically depressed south, but has been implicated for a cancer as dioxin and mercury have seeped into local groundwater, tainting the food supply, while poisoning the bay and its once-lucrative mussels.
    CIPG_20180222_NYT_Puglia_M3_8314.jpg
  • TARANTO, ITALY - 22 FEBRUARY 2018: An ILVA employee walks by and ignores Raffaella Loperfido (46), a union activist distributing flyers and telling employees not to vote in the upcoming Italian General Elections, in Taranto, Italy, on February 22nd 2018.<br />
<br />
The banner on the left says: "No health, no job? No vote".<br />
<br />
Taranto, a  formerly lovely town on the Ionian Sea has for the last several decades been dominated by the ILVA steel mill, the largest steel plant in Europe. It was built by the government in the 1960s as a means of delivering jobs to the economically depressed south, but has been implicated for a cancer as dioxin and mercury have seeped into local groundwater, tainting the food supply, while poisoning the bay and its once-lucrative mussels.
    CIPG_20180222_NYT_Puglia_M3_7948.jpg
  • PRATO, ITALY - 25 NOVEMBER 2019: Marco Weng (20), a first-generation Italian-Chinese and son of Chinese immigrants who arrived in Italy 30 years ago, poses for a portrait at his partner's fried chicken take-away restaurant in the Chinatown of Prato, Italy, on November 25th 2019. “There was no clothing industry here. Italians only made textiles. Chinese people didn’t take jobs. We have created jobs”, Mr Weng says.  Marco Weng is about to launch a chain of Korean fried chicken restaurants with a partner.<br />
<br />
Today, roughly one-tenth of the city’s 200,000 inhabitants are Chinese immigrants who have arrived legally, while many estimates put the total number at 45,000 after accounting for those without proper documents. <br />
Chinese grocery stores and restaurants have emerged to serve the local population. On the outskirts of the city, Chinese entrepreneurs oversee warehouses teeming with racks of clothing destined for markets across the continent. Estimates have it that 80 percent of clothing sold in street markets within the European Union is made by Chinese workers in Prato.<br />
<br />
Italy has proved especially vulnerable to China’s emergence as a manufacturing juggernaut, given that many of its artisanal trades -- textiles, leather, shoe-making -- have long been dominated by small, family-run businesses that lacked the scale to compete on price with factories in a nation of 1.4 billion people. <br />
In recent years, four Italian regions that were as late as the 1980s electing Communists and then reliably supported center-left candidates -- Tuscany, Umbria, Marche and Emilia-Romagna  -- have swung dramatically to the extreme right. Many working class people say that delineation has it backwards: The left abandoned them, not the other way around. <br />
<br />
Between 2001 and 2011, Prato’s 6,000 textile companies shrunk to 3,000, and those employed by the plants plunged from 40,000 to 19,000, according to Confindustria, the leading Italian industrial trade association. As Prato’s facto
    CIPG_20191125_NYT_Italy-Cris_M3_1894.jpg
  • PRATO, ITALY - 25 NOVEMBER 2019: Marco Weng (20), a first-generation Italian-Chinese and son of Chinese immigrants who arrived in Italy 30 years ago, poses for a portrait at his partner's fried chicken take-away restaurant in the Chinatown of Prato, Italy, on November 25th 2019. “There was no clothing industry here. Italians only made textiles. Chinese people didn’t take jobs. We have created jobs”, Mr Weng says.  Marco Weng is about to launch a chain of Korean fried chicken restaurants with a partner.<br />
<br />
Today, roughly one-tenth of the city’s 200,000 inhabitants are Chinese immigrants who have arrived legally, while many estimates put the total number at 45,000 after accounting for those without proper documents. <br />
Chinese grocery stores and restaurants have emerged to serve the local population. On the outskirts of the city, Chinese entrepreneurs oversee warehouses teeming with racks of clothing destined for markets across the continent. Estimates have it that 80 percent of clothing sold in street markets within the European Union is made by Chinese workers in Prato.<br />
<br />
Italy has proved especially vulnerable to China’s emergence as a manufacturing juggernaut, given that many of its artisanal trades -- textiles, leather, shoe-making -- have long been dominated by small, family-run businesses that lacked the scale to compete on price with factories in a nation of 1.4 billion people. <br />
In recent years, four Italian regions that were as late as the 1980s electing Communists and then reliably supported center-left candidates -- Tuscany, Umbria, Marche and Emilia-Romagna  -- have swung dramatically to the extreme right. Many working class people say that delineation has it backwards: The left abandoned them, not the other way around. <br />
<br />
Between 2001 and 2011, Prato’s 6,000 textile companies shrunk to 3,000, and those employed by the plants plunged from 40,000 to 19,000, according to Confindustria, the leading Italian industrial trade association. As Prato’s facto
    CIPG_20191125_NYT_Italy-Cris_M3_1890.jpg
  • PRATO, ITALY - 25 NOVEMBER 2019: Marco Weng (20), a first-generation Italian-Chinese and son of Chinese immigrants who arrived in Italy 30 years ago, poses for a portrait at his partner's fried chicken take-away restaurant in the Chinatown of Prato, Italy, on November 25th 2019. “There was no clothing industry here. Italians only made textiles. Chinese people didn’t take jobs. We have created jobs”, Mr Weng says.  Marco Weng is about to launch a chain of Korean fried chicken restaurants with a partner.<br />
<br />
Today, roughly one-tenth of the city’s 200,000 inhabitants are Chinese immigrants who have arrived legally, while many estimates put the total number at 45,000 after accounting for those without proper documents. <br />
Chinese grocery stores and restaurants have emerged to serve the local population. On the outskirts of the city, Chinese entrepreneurs oversee warehouses teeming with racks of clothing destined for markets across the continent. Estimates have it that 80 percent of clothing sold in street markets within the European Union is made by Chinese workers in Prato.<br />
<br />
Italy has proved especially vulnerable to China’s emergence as a manufacturing juggernaut, given that many of its artisanal trades -- textiles, leather, shoe-making -- have long been dominated by small, family-run businesses that lacked the scale to compete on price with factories in a nation of 1.4 billion people. <br />
In recent years, four Italian regions that were as late as the 1980s electing Communists and then reliably supported center-left candidates -- Tuscany, Umbria, Marche and Emilia-Romagna  -- have swung dramatically to the extreme right. Many working class people say that delineation has it backwards: The left abandoned them, not the other way around. <br />
<br />
Between 2001 and 2011, Prato’s 6,000 textile companies shrunk to 3,000, and those employed by the plants plunged from 40,000 to 19,000, according to Confindustria, the leading Italian industrial trade association. As Prato’s facto
    CIPG_20191125_NYT_Italy-Cris_M3_1829.jpg
  • PRATO, ITALY - 25 NOVEMBER 2019: Marco Weng (20), a first-generation Italian-Chinese and son of Chinese immigrants who arrived in Italy 30 years ago, poses for a portrait at his partner's fried chicken take-away restaurant in the Chinatown of Prato, Italy, on November 25th 2019. “There was no clothing industry here. Italians only made textiles. Chinese people didn’t take jobs. We have created jobs”, Mr Weng says.  Marco Weng is about to launch a chain of Korean fried chicken restaurants with a partner.<br />
<br />
Today, roughly one-tenth of the city’s 200,000 inhabitants are Chinese immigrants who have arrived legally, while many estimates put the total number at 45,000 after accounting for those without proper documents. <br />
Chinese grocery stores and restaurants have emerged to serve the local population. On the outskirts of the city, Chinese entrepreneurs oversee warehouses teeming with racks of clothing destined for markets across the continent. Estimates have it that 80 percent of clothing sold in street markets within the European Union is made by Chinese workers in Prato.<br />
<br />
Italy has proved especially vulnerable to China’s emergence as a manufacturing juggernaut, given that many of its artisanal trades -- textiles, leather, shoe-making -- have long been dominated by small, family-run businesses that lacked the scale to compete on price with factories in a nation of 1.4 billion people. <br />
In recent years, four Italian regions that were as late as the 1980s electing Communists and then reliably supported center-left candidates -- Tuscany, Umbria, Marche and Emilia-Romagna  -- have swung dramatically to the extreme right. Many working class people say that delineation has it backwards: The left abandoned them, not the other way around. <br />
<br />
Between 2001 and 2011, Prato’s 6,000 textile companies shrunk to 3,000, and those employed by the plants plunged from 40,000 to 19,000, according to Confindustria, the leading Italian industrial trade association. As Prato’s facto
    CIPG_20191125_NYT_Italy-Cris_M3_1765.jpg
  • PRATO, ITALY - 25 NOVEMBER 2019: Marco Weng (20), a first-generation Italian-Chinese and son of Chinese immigrants who arrived in Italy 30 years ago, poses for a portrait at his partner's fried chicken take-away restaurant in the Chinatown of Prato, Italy, on November 25th 2019. “There was no clothing industry here. Italians only made textiles. Chinese people didn’t take jobs. We have created jobs”, Mr Weng says.  Marco Weng is about to launch a chain of Korean fried chicken restaurants with a partner.<br />
<br />
Today, roughly one-tenth of the city’s 200,000 inhabitants are Chinese immigrants who have arrived legally, while many estimates put the total number at 45,000 after accounting for those without proper documents. <br />
Chinese grocery stores and restaurants have emerged to serve the local population. On the outskirts of the city, Chinese entrepreneurs oversee warehouses teeming with racks of clothing destined for markets across the continent. Estimates have it that 80 percent of clothing sold in street markets within the European Union is made by Chinese workers in Prato.<br />
<br />
Italy has proved especially vulnerable to China’s emergence as a manufacturing juggernaut, given that many of its artisanal trades -- textiles, leather, shoe-making -- have long been dominated by small, family-run businesses that lacked the scale to compete on price with factories in a nation of 1.4 billion people. <br />
In recent years, four Italian regions that were as late as the 1980s electing Communists and then reliably supported center-left candidates -- Tuscany, Umbria, Marche and Emilia-Romagna  -- have swung dramatically to the extreme right. Many working class people say that delineation has it backwards: The left abandoned them, not the other way around. <br />
<br />
Between 2001 and 2011, Prato’s 6,000 textile companies shrunk to 3,000, and those employed by the plants plunged from 40,000 to 19,000, according to Confindustria, the leading Italian industrial trade association. As Prato’s facto
    CIPG_20191125_NYT_Italy-Cris_M3_1752.jpg
  • PRATO, ITALY - 25 NOVEMBER 2019: Marco Weng (20), a first-generation Italian-Chinese and son of Chinese immigrants who arrived in Italy 30 years ago, poses for a portrait at his partner's fried chicken take-away restaurant in the Chinatown of Prato, Italy, on November 25th 2019. “There was no clothing industry here. Italians only made textiles. Chinese people didn’t take jobs. We have created jobs”, Mr Weng says.  Marco Weng is about to launch a chain of Korean fried chicken restaurants with a partner.<br />
<br />
Today, roughly one-tenth of the city’s 200,000 inhabitants are Chinese immigrants who have arrived legally, while many estimates put the total number at 45,000 after accounting for those without proper documents. <br />
Chinese grocery stores and restaurants have emerged to serve the local population. On the outskirts of the city, Chinese entrepreneurs oversee warehouses teeming with racks of clothing destined for markets across the continent. Estimates have it that 80 percent of clothing sold in street markets within the European Union is made by Chinese workers in Prato.<br />
<br />
Italy has proved especially vulnerable to China’s emergence as a manufacturing juggernaut, given that many of its artisanal trades -- textiles, leather, shoe-making -- have long been dominated by small, family-run businesses that lacked the scale to compete on price with factories in a nation of 1.4 billion people. <br />
In recent years, four Italian regions that were as late as the 1980s electing Communists and then reliably supported center-left candidates -- Tuscany, Umbria, Marche and Emilia-Romagna  -- have swung dramatically to the extreme right. Many working class people say that delineation has it backwards: The left abandoned them, not the other way around. <br />
<br />
Between 2001 and 2011, Prato’s 6,000 textile companies shrunk to 3,000, and those employed by the plants plunged from 40,000 to 19,000, according to Confindustria, the leading Italian industrial trade association. As Prato’s facto
    CIPG_20191125_NYT_Italy-Cris_M3_1841.jpg
  • RUTIGLIANO, ITALY - 21 FEBRUARY 2018: Fabio Divella, Chief Operator Officer at Divella SpA, poses for a portrait by a a pasta spreader machine at the Divella pasta factory in Rutigliano, Italy, on February 21st 2018.<br />
<br />
Opened in 1895, the plant just outside the regional capital of Bari is run by the grandson of the founder, Francesco Divella. Divella has exports grow substantially and is a prime example of the success of the region in recent years. Yet this has led to very few jobs, given that the plant is highly automated, with more on the way: they just bought a self-driving forklift to handle warehouse work and have already deployed robotic arms that place product into boxes. Divella is an example of how Italy's recent success is not lifting enough people to make a difference in sentiment.
    CIPG_20180221_NYT_Puglia_M3_6410.jpg
  • RUTIGLIANO, ITALY - 21 FEBRUARY 2018: An employee checks the penne candela (a type of pasta) after being dried, at the Divella pasta factory in Rutigliano, Italy, on February 21st 2018.<br />
<br />
Opened in 1895, the plant just outside the regional capital of Bari is run by the grandson of the founder, Francesco Divella. Divella has exports grow substantially and is a prime example of the success of the region in recent years. Yet this has led to very few jobs, given that the plant is highly automated, with more on the way: they just bought a self-driving forklift to handle warehouse work and have already deployed robotic arms that place product into boxes. Divella is an example of how Italy's recent success is not lifting enough people to make a difference in sentiment.
    CIPG_20180221_NYT_Puglia_M3_6248.jpg
  • RUTIGLIANO, ITALY - 21 FEBRUARY 2018: Vincenzo Desario (41), a production line conductor who's been working the Divella pasta factory for the past 17 years, poses for a portrait as  spaghettis are transferred on a conveyer belt before being stacked in boxes at the Divella pasta factory in Rutigliano, Italy, on February 21st 2018.<br />
<br />
Opened in 1895, the plant just outside the regional capital of Bari is run by the grandson of the founder, Francesco Divella. It produces a vast range of pasta that is exported in more than 30 countries. Divella has exports grow substantially and is a prime example of the success of the region in recent years. Yet this has led to very few jobs, given that the plant is highly automated, with more on the way: they just bought a self-driving forklift to handle warehouse work and have already deployed robotic arms that place product into boxes. Divella is an example of how Italy's recent success is not lifting enough people to make a difference in sentiment.
    CIPG_20180221_NYT_Puglia_M3_6104.jpg
  • RUTIGLIANO, ITALY - 21 FEBRUARY 2018: Francesco Divella, CEO of Divella SpA, poses for a portrait at the Divella pasta factory in Rutigliano, Italy, on February 21st 2018.<br />
<br />
Opened in 1895, the plant just outside the regional capital of Bari is run by the grandson of the founder, Francesco Divella. Divella has exports grow substantially and is a prime example of the success of the region in recent years. Yet this has led to very few jobs, given that the plant is highly automated, with more on the way: they just bought a self-driving forklift to handle warehouse work and have already deployed robotic arms that place product into boxes. Divella is an example of how Italy's recent success is not lifting enough people to make a difference in sentiment.
    CIPG_20180221_NYT_Puglia_M3_5968.jpg
  • TARANTO, ITALY - 22 FEBRUARY 2018: The concrete flats of Tamburi, the working-class district adjacent to the ILVA steel mill, are seen here in Taranto, Italy, on February 22nd 2018.<br />
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Taranto, a  formerly lovely town on the Ionian Sea has for the last several decades been dominated by the ILVA steel mill, the largest steel plant in Europe. It was built by the government in the 1960s as a means of delivering jobs to the economically depressed south, but has been implicated for a cancer as dioxin and mercury have seeped into local groundwater, tainting the food supply, while poisoning the bay and its once-lucrative mussels.
    CIPG_20180222_NYT_Puglia_M3_8526.jpg
  • TARANTO, ITALY - 22 FEBRUARY 2018: The ILVA steel mill and the concrete flats of Tamburi, the adjacent working-class district, are seen here in Taranto, Italy, on February 22nd 2018.<br />
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Taranto, a  formerly lovely town on the Ionian Sea has for the last several decades been dominated by the ILVA steel mill, the largest steel plant in Europe. It was built by the government in the 1960s as a means of delivering jobs to the economically depressed south, but has been implicated for a cancer as dioxin and mercury have seeped into local groundwater, tainting the food supply, while poisoning the bay and its once-lucrative mussels.
    CIPG_20180222_NYT_Puglia_M3_8447.jpg
  • TARANTO, ITALY - 22 FEBRUARY 2018: Alessio Peretto (42), who has worked at the ILVA steel mill since 200  but is nonetheless part of activist group trying to shut it down, poses for a portrait in fron the plant in Taranto, Italy, on February 22nd 2018.<br />
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Taranto, a  formerly lovely town on the Ionian Sea has for the last several decades been dominated by the ILVA steel mill, the largest steel plant in Europe. It was built by the government in the 1960s as a means of delivering jobs to the economically depressed south, but has been implicated for a cancer as dioxin and mercury have seeped into local groundwater, tainting the food supply, while poisoning the bay and its once-lucrative mussels.
    CIPG_20180222_NYT_Puglia_M3_8266.jpg
  • TARANTO, ITALY - 22 FEBRUARY 2018: in Taranto, Italy, on February 22nd 2018.<br />
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Taranto, a  formerly lovely town on the Ionian Sea has for the last several decades been dominated by the ILVA steel mill, the largest steel plant in Europe. It was built by the government in the 1960s as a means of delivering jobs to the economically depressed south, but has been implicated for a cancer as dioxin and mercury have seeped into local groundwater, tainting the food supply, while poisoning the bay and its once-lucrative mussels.
    CIPG_20180222_NYT_Puglia_M3_8204.jpg
  • TARANTO, ITALY - 22 FEBRUARY 2018: The entrance to the ILVA steel mill is seen here in Taranto, Italy, on February 22nd 2018.<br />
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Taranto, a  formerly lovely town on the Ionian Sea has for the last several decades been dominated by the ILVA steel mill, the largest steel plant in Europe. It was built by the government in the 1960s as a means of delivering jobs to the economically depressed south, but has been implicated for a cancer as dioxin and mercury have seeped into local groundwater, tainting the food supply, while poisoning the bay and its once-lucrative mussels.
    CIPG_20180222_NYT_Puglia_M3_7847.jpg
  • TARANTO, ITALY - 22 FEBRUARY 2018: Ignazio D'Andria, owner of the Mini Bar, prepares a coffee in his bar in Tamburi, the working-class district adjacent the ILVA steel mill in Taranto, Italy, on February 22nd 2018.<br />
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Taranto, a  formerly lovely town on the Ionian Sea has for the last several decades been dominated by the ILVA steel mill, the largest steel plant in Europe. It was built by the government in the 1960s as a means of delivering jobs to the economically depressed south, but has been implicated for a cancer as dioxin and mercury have seeped into local groundwater, tainting the food supply, while poisoning the bay and its once-lucrative mussels.
    CIPG_20180222_NYT_Puglia_M3_7772.jpg
  • RUTIGLIANO, ITALY - 21 FEBRUARY 2018: Boxes of Divella products are stored or transferred to trucks for shipping in the warehouse of the Divella pasta factory in Rutigliano, Italy, on February 21st 2018.<br />
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Opened in 1895, the plant just outside the regional capital of Bari is run by the grandson of the founder, Francesco Divella. It produces a vast range of pasta that is exported in more than 30 countries. Divella has exports grow substantially and is a prime example of the success of the region in recent years. Yet this has led to very few jobs, given that the plant is highly automated, with more on the way: they just bought a self-driving forklift to handle warehouse work and have already deployed robotic arms that place product into boxes. Divella is an example of how Italy's recent success is not lifting enough people to make a difference in sentiment.
    CIPG_20180221_NYT_Puglia_M3_6484.jpg
  • RUTIGLIANO, ITALY - 21 FEBRUARY 2018: Boxes of Divella products are stored or transferred to trucks for shipping in the warehouse of the Divella pasta factory in Rutigliano, Italy, on February 21st 2018.<br />
<br />
Opened in 1895, the plant just outside the regional capital of Bari is run by the grandson of the founder, Francesco Divella. It produces a vast range of pasta that is exported in more than 30 countries. Divella has exports grow substantially and is a prime example of the success of the region in recent years. Yet this has led to very few jobs, given that the plant is highly automated, with more on the way: they just bought a self-driving forklift to handle warehouse work and have already deployed robotic arms that place product into boxes. Divella is an example of how Italy's recent success is not lifting enough people to make a difference in sentiment.
    CIPG_20180221_NYT_Puglia_M3_6464.jpg
  • RUTIGLIANO, ITALY - 21 FEBRUARY 2018: Boxes of Divella products are stored or transferred to trucks for shipping in the warehouse of the Divella pasta factory in Rutigliano, Italy, on February 21st 2018.<br />
<br />
Opened in 1895, the plant just outside the regional capital of Bari is run by the grandson of the founder, Francesco Divella. It produces a vast range of pasta that is exported in more than 30 countries. Divella has exports grow substantially and is a prime example of the success of the region in recent years. Yet this has led to very few jobs, given that the plant is highly automated, with more on the way: they just bought a self-driving forklift to handle warehouse work and have already deployed robotic arms that place product into boxes. Divella is an example of how Italy's recent success is not lifting enough people to make a difference in sentiment.
    CIPG_20180221_NYT_Puglia_M3_6452.jpg
  • RUTIGLIANO, ITALY - 21 FEBRUARY 2018: Fabio Divella, Chief Operator Officer at Divella SpA, poses for a portrait by a a pasta spreader machine at the Divella pasta factory in Rutigliano, Italy, on February 21st 2018.<br />
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Opened in 1895, the plant just outside the regional capital of Bari is run by the grandson of the founder, Francesco Divella. Divella has exports grow substantially and is a prime example of the success of the region in recent years. Yet this has led to very few jobs, given that the plant is highly automated, with more on the way: they just bought a self-driving forklift to handle warehouse work and have already deployed robotic arms that place product into boxes. Divella is an example of how Italy's recent success is not lifting enough people to make a difference in sentiment.
    CIPG_20180221_NYT_Puglia_M3_6420.jpg
  • RUTIGLIANO, ITALY - 21 FEBRUARY 2018: Fabio Divella, Chief Operator Officer at Divella SpA, poses for a portrait by a a pasta spreader machine at the Divella pasta factory in Rutigliano, Italy, on February 21st 2018.<br />
<br />
Opened in 1895, the plant just outside the regional capital of Bari is run by the grandson of the founder, Francesco Divella. Divella has exports grow substantially and is a prime example of the success of the region in recent years. Yet this has led to very few jobs, given that the plant is highly automated, with more on the way: they just bought a self-driving forklift to handle warehouse work and have already deployed robotic arms that place product into boxes. Divella is an example of how Italy's recent success is not lifting enough people to make a difference in sentiment.
    CIPG_20180221_NYT_Puglia_M3_6394.jpg
  • RUTIGLIANO, ITALY - 21 FEBRUARY 2018: Pasta is automatically poured into a conveyer belt after being shaped by a machine at the Divella pasta factory in Rutigliano, Italy, on February 21st 2018.<br />
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Opened in 1895, the plant just outside the regional capital of Bari is run by the grandson of the founder, Francesco Divella. It produces a vast range of pasta that is exported in more than 30 countries. Divella has exports grow substantially and is a prime example of the success of the region in recent years. Yet this has led to very few jobs, given that the plant is highly automated, with more on the way: they just bought a self-driving forklift to handle warehouse work and have already deployed robotic arms that place product into boxes. Divella is an example of how Italy's recent success is not lifting enough people to make a difference in sentiment.
    CIPG_20180221_NYT_Puglia_M3_6339.jpg
  • RUTIGLIANO, ITALY - 21 FEBRUARY 2018: An employee closes boxes of packaged pasta at the end of the production process at the Divella pasta factory in Rutigliano, Italy, on February 21st 2018.<br />
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Opened in 1895, the plant just outside the regional capital of Bari is run by the grandson of the founder, Francesco Divella. Divella has exports grow substantially and is a prime example of the success of the region in recent years. Yet this has led to very few jobs, given that the plant is highly automated, with more on the way: they just bought a self-driving forklift to handle warehouse work and have already deployed robotic arms that place product into boxes. Divella is an example of how Italy's recent success is not lifting enough people to make a difference in sentiment.
    CIPG_20180221_NYT_Puglia_M3_6260.jpg
  • RUTIGLIANO, ITALY - 21 FEBRUARY 2018: An employee checks the penne candela (a type of pasta) after being dried, at the Divella pasta factory in Rutigliano, Italy, on February 21st 2018.<br />
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Opened in 1895, the plant just outside the regional capital of Bari is run by the grandson of the founder, Francesco Divella. Divella has exports grow substantially and is a prime example of the success of the region in recent years. Yet this has led to very few jobs, given that the plant is highly automated, with more on the way: they just bought a self-driving forklift to handle warehouse work and have already deployed robotic arms that place product into boxes. Divella is an example of how Italy's recent success is not lifting enough people to make a difference in sentiment.
    CIPG_20180221_NYT_Puglia_M3_6253.jpg
  • RUTIGLIANO, ITALY - 21 FEBRUARY 2018: An employee checks the penne candela (a type of pasta) after being dried, at the Divella pasta factory in Rutigliano, Italy, on February 21st 2018.<br />
<br />
Opened in 1895, the plant just outside the regional capital of Bari is run by the grandson of the founder, Francesco Divella. Divella has exports grow substantially and is a prime example of the success of the region in recent years. Yet this has led to very few jobs, given that the plant is highly automated, with more on the way: they just bought a self-driving forklift to handle warehouse work and have already deployed robotic arms that place product into boxes. Divella is an example of how Italy's recent success is not lifting enough people to make a difference in sentiment.
    CIPG_20180221_NYT_Puglia_M3_6231.jpg
  • RUTIGLIANO, ITALY - 21 FEBRUARY 2018: An employee checks the penne candela (a type of pasta) after being dried, at the Divella pasta factory in Rutigliano, Italy, on February 21st 2018.<br />
<br />
Opened in 1895, the plant just outside the regional capital of Bari is run by the grandson of the founder, Francesco Divella. Divella has exports grow substantially and is a prime example of the success of the region in recent years. Yet this has led to very few jobs, given that the plant is highly automated, with more on the way: they just bought a self-driving forklift to handle warehouse work and have already deployed robotic arms that place product into boxes. Divella is an example of how Italy's recent success is not lifting enough people to make a difference in sentiment.
    CIPG_20180221_NYT_Puglia_M3_6226.jpg
  • RUTIGLIANO, ITALY - 21 FEBRUARY 2018: Packs of pasta are automatically transferred from the conveyer belt to boxes at the Divella pasta factory in Rutigliano, Italy, on February 21st 2018.<br />
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Opened in 1895, the plant just outside the regional capital of Bari is run by the grandson of the founder, Francesco Divella. It produces a vast range of pasta that is exported in more than 30 countries. Divella has exports grow substantially and is a prime example of the success of the region in recent years. Yet this has led to very few jobs, given that the plant is highly automated, with more on the way: they just bought a self-driving forklift to handle warehouse work and have already deployed robotic arms that place product into boxes. Divella is an example of how Italy's recent success is not lifting enough people to make a difference in sentiment.
    CIPG_20180221_NYT_Puglia_M3_6210.jpg
  • RUTIGLIANO, ITALY - 21 FEBRUARY 2018: Spaghettis are seen here going through a stripping machine during the pasta production process at the Divella pasta factory in Rutigliano, Italy, on February 21st 2018.<br />
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Opened in 1895, the plant just outside the regional capital of Bari is run by the grandson of the founder, Francesco Divella. It produces a vast range of pasta that is exported in more than 30 countries. Divella has exports grow substantially and is a prime example of the success of the region in recent years. Yet this has led to very few jobs, given that the plant is highly automated, with more on the way: they just bought a self-driving forklift to handle warehouse work and have already deployed robotic arms that place product into boxes. Divella is an example of how Italy's recent success is not lifting enough people to make a difference in sentiment.
    CIPG_20180221_NYT_Puglia_M3_6182.jpg
  • RUTIGLIANO, ITALY - 21 FEBRUARY 2018: Vincenzo Desario (41), a production line conductor who's been working the Divella pasta factory for the past 17 years, checks packaged spaghettis on a conveyer belt before being stacked in boxes at the Divella pasta factory in Rutigliano, Italy, on February 21st 2018.<br />
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Opened in 1895, the plant just outside the regional capital of Bari is run by the grandson of the founder, Francesco Divella. It produces a vast range of pasta that is exported in more than 30 countries. Divella has exports grow substantially and is a prime example of the success of the region in recent years. Yet this has led to very few jobs, given that the plant is highly automated, with more on the way: they just bought a self-driving forklift to handle warehouse work and have already deployed robotic arms that place product into boxes. Divella is an example of how Italy's recent success is not lifting enough people to make a difference in sentiment.
    CIPG_20180221_NYT_Puglia_M3_6073.jpg
  • RUTIGLIANO, ITALY - 21 FEBRUARY 2018: Packaged spaghettis are seen here on a conveyer belt before being stacked in boxes at the Divella pasta factory in Rutigliano, Italy, on February 21st 2018.<br />
<br />
Opened in 1895, the plant just outside the regional capital of Bari is run by the grandson of the founder, Francesco Divella. It produces a vast range of pasta that is exported in more than 30 countries. Divella has exports grow substantially and is a prime example of the success of the region in recent years. Yet this has led to very few jobs, given that the plant is highly automated, with more on the way: they just bought a self-driving forklift to handle warehouse work and have already deployed robotic arms that place product into boxes. Divella is an example of how Italy's recent success is not lifting enough people to make a difference in sentiment.
    CIPG_20180221_NYT_Puglia_M3_6062.jpg
  • RUTIGLIANO, ITALY - 21 FEBRUARY 2018: Alessandro Ciasca (38), who's been working at the Divella pasta factory for the past 14 years, checks the machine that pours the Penne Candela (a type of pasta) automatically onto a conveyer belt for its packaging at the Divella pasta factory in Rutigliano, Italy, on February 21st 2018.<br />
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Opened in 1895, the plant just outside the regional capital of Bari is run by the grandson of the founder, Francesco Divella. It produces a vast range of pasta that is exported in more than 30 countries. Divella has exports grow substantially and is a prime example of the success of the region in recent years. Yet this has led to very few jobs, given that the plant is highly automated, with more on the way: they just bought a self-driving forklift to handle warehouse work and have already deployed robotic arms that place product into boxes. Divella is an example of how Italy's recent success is not lifting enough people to make a difference in sentiment.
    CIPG_20180221_NYT_Puglia_M3_6021.jpg
  • RUTIGLIANO, ITALY - 21 FEBRUARY 2018: Alessandro Ciasca (38), who's been working at the Divella pasta factory for the past 14 years, checks the machine that pours the Penne Candela (a type of pasta) automatically onto a conveyer belt for its packaging at the Divella pasta factory in Rutigliano, Italy, on February 21st 2018.<br />
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Opened in 1895, the plant just outside the regional capital of Bari is run by the grandson of the founder, Francesco Divella. It produces a vast range of pasta that is exported in more than 30 countries. Divella has exports grow substantially and is a prime example of the success of the region in recent years. Yet this has led to very few jobs, given that the plant is highly automated, with more on the way: they just bought a self-driving forklift to handle warehouse work and have already deployed robotic arms that place product into boxes. Divella is an example of how Italy's recent success is not lifting enough people to make a difference in sentiment.
    CIPG_20180221_NYT_Puglia_M3_6012.jpg
  • RUTIGLIANO, ITALY - 21 FEBRUARY 2018: Penne Candela (a type of pasta) are automatically poured into a conveyer belt for its packaging at the Divella pasta factory in Rutigliano, Italy, on February 21st 2018.<br />
<br />
Opened in 1895, the plant just outside the regional capital of Bari is run by the grandson of the founder, Francesco Divella. It produces a vast range of pasta that is exported in more than 30 countries. Divella has exports grow substantially and is a prime example of the success of the region in recent years. Yet this has led to very few jobs, given that the plant is highly automated, with more on the way: they just bought a self-driving forklift to handle warehouse work and have already deployed robotic arms that place product into boxes. Divella is an example of how Italy's recent success is not lifting enough people to make a difference in sentiment.
    CIPG_20180221_NYT_Puglia_M3_6008.jpg
  • RUTIGLIANO, ITALY - 21 FEBRUARY 2018: Francesco Divella, CEO of Divella SpA, checks the penne candela (a type of pasta) before the packaging process at the Divella pasta factory in Rutigliano, Italy, on February 21st 2018.<br />
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Opened in 1895, the plant just outside the regional capital of Bari is run by the grandson of the founder, Francesco Divella. Divella has exports grow substantially and is a prime example of the success of the region in recent years. Yet this has led to very few jobs, given that the plant is highly automated, with more on the way: they just bought a self-driving forklift to handle warehouse work and have already deployed robotic arms that place product into boxes. Divella is an example of how Italy's recent success is not lifting enough people to make a difference in sentiment.
    CIPG_20180221_NYT_Puglia_M3_5959.jpg
  • RUTIGLIANO, ITALY - 21 FEBRUARY 2018: Francesco Divella, CEO of Divella SpA, poses for a portrait at the Divella pasta factory in Rutigliano, Italy, on February 21st 2018.<br />
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Opened in 1895, the plant just outside the regional capital of Bari is run by the grandson of the founder, Francesco Divella. Divella has exports grow substantially and is a prime example of the success of the region in recent years. Yet this has led to very few jobs, given that the plant is highly automated, with more on the way: they just bought a self-driving forklift to handle warehouse work and have already deployed robotic arms that place product into boxes. Divella is an example of how Italy's recent success is not lifting enough people to make a difference in sentiment.
    CIPG_20180221_NYT_Puglia_M3_5910.jpg
  • RUTIGLIANO, ITALY - 21 FEBRUARY 2018: Francesco Divella, CEO of Divella SpA, poses for a portrait at the Divella pasta factory in Rutigliano, Italy, on February 21st 2018.<br />
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Opened in 1895, the plant just outside the regional capital of Bari is run by the grandson of the founder, Francesco Divella. Divella has exports grow substantially and is a prime example of the success of the region in recent years. Yet this has led to very few jobs, given that the plant is highly automated, with more on the way: they just bought a self-driving forklift to handle warehouse work and have already deployed robotic arms that place product into boxes. Divella is an example of how Italy's recent success is not lifting enough people to make a difference in sentiment.
    CIPG_20180221_NYT_Puglia_M3_5905.jpg
  • RUTIGLIANO, ITALY - 21 FEBRUARY 2018: Quality control manager Ferruccio Inverardi walks by the spreader machines during the pasta production process at the Divella pasta factory in Rutigliano, Italy, on February 21st 2018.<br />
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Opened in 1895, the plant just outside the regional capital of Bari is run by the grandson of the founder, Francesco Divella. It produces a vast range of pasta that is exported in more than 30 countries. Divella has exports grow substantially and is a prime example of the success of the region in recent years. Yet this has led to very few jobs, given that the plant is highly automated, with more on the way: they just bought a self-driving forklift to handle warehouse work and have already deployed robotic arms that place product into boxes. Divella is an example of how Italy's recent success is not lifting enough people to make a difference in sentiment.
    CIPG_20180221_NYT_Puglia_M3_5877.jpg
  • RUTIGLIANO, ITALY - 21 FEBRUARY 2018: Quality control manager Ferruccio Inverardi walks by the spreader machines during the pasta production process at the Divella pasta factory in Rutigliano, Italy, on February 21st 2018.<br />
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Opened in 1895, the plant just outside the regional capital of Bari is run by the grandson of the founder, Francesco Divella. It produces a vast range of pasta that is exported in more than 30 countries. Divella has exports grow substantially and is a prime example of the success of the region in recent years. Yet this has led to very few jobs, given that the plant is highly automated, with more on the way: they just bought a self-driving forklift to handle warehouse work and have already deployed robotic arms that place product into boxes. Divella is an example of how Italy's recent success is not lifting enough people to make a difference in sentiment.
    CIPG_20180221_NYT_Puglia_M3_5837.jpg
  • TARANTO, ITALY - 22 FEBRUARY 2018: A woman walks her dog by a residential building in Tamburi, the working-class district adjacent the ILVA steel mill in Taranto, Italy, on February 22nd 2018.<br />
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Taranto, a  formerly lovely town on the Ionian Sea has for the last several decades been dominated by the ILVA steel mill, the largest steel plant in Europe. It was built by the government in the 1960s as a means of delivering jobs to the economically depressed south, but has been implicated for a cancer as dioxin and mercury have seeped into local groundwater, tainting the food supply, while poisoning the bay and its once-lucrative mussels.
    CIPG_20180222_NYT_Puglia_M3_8800.jpg
  • TARANTO, ITALY - 22 FEBRUARY 2018: A woman walks her dog by a residential building in Tamburi, the working-class district adjacent the ILVA steel mill in Taranto, Italy, on February 22nd 2018.<br />
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Taranto, a  formerly lovely town on the Ionian Sea has for the last several decades been dominated by the ILVA steel mill, the largest steel plant in Europe. It was built by the government in the 1960s as a means of delivering jobs to the economically depressed south, but has been implicated for a cancer as dioxin and mercury have seeped into local groundwater, tainting the food supply, while poisoning the bay and its once-lucrative mussels.
    CIPG_20180222_NYT_Puglia_M3_8796.jpg
  • TARANTO, ITALY - 22 FEBRUARY 2018: A man walks by a residential building in Tamburi, the working-class district adjacent the ILVA steel mill in Taranto, Italy, on February 22nd 2018.<br />
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Taranto, a  formerly lovely town on the Ionian Sea has for the last several decades been dominated by the ILVA steel mill, the largest steel plant in Europe. It was built by the government in the 1960s as a means of delivering jobs to the economically depressed south, but has been implicated for a cancer as dioxin and mercury have seeped into local groundwater, tainting the food supply, while poisoning the bay and its once-lucrative mussels.
    CIPG_20180222_NYT_Puglia_M3_8780.jpg
  • TARANTO, ITALY - 22 FEBRUARY 2018: A plaque saying "During the days North-North-West wind, we are buried by mineral dust and suffocated by gas emissions coming from the ILVA industrial plant. For this reason we damn those who could and won't do anything to fix this", in Tamburi, the working-class district adjacent the ILVA steel mill in Taranto, Italy, on February 22nd 2018.<br />
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Taranto, a  formerly lovely town on the Ionian Sea has for the last several decades been dominated by the ILVA steel mill, the largest steel plant in Europe. It was built by the government in the 1960s as a means of delivering jobs to the economically depressed south, but has been implicated for a cancer as dioxin and mercury have seeped into local groundwater, tainting the food supply, while poisoning the bay and its once-lucrative mussels.
    CIPG_20180222_NYT_Puglia_M3_8750.jpg
  • TARANTO, ITALY - 22 FEBRUARY 2018: A Five Stars Movement activist is seen here in the local headquarters of the movement in the working-class district of Tamburi, in Taranto, Italy, on February 22nd 2018.<br />
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Taranto, a  formerly lovely town on the Ionian Sea has for the last several decades been dominated by the ILVA steel mill, the largest steel plant in Europe. It was built by the government in the 1960s as a means of delivering jobs to the economically depressed south, but has been implicated for a cancer as dioxin and mercury have seeped into local groundwater, tainting the food supply, while poisoning the bay and its once-lucrative mussels.
    CIPG_20180222_NYT_Puglia_M3_8728.jpg
  • TARANTO, ITALY - 22 FEBRUARY 2018: Five Stars Movement elections posters are seen here in the local headquarters of the movement in the working-class district of Tamburi, in Taranto, Italy, on February 22nd 2018.<br />
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Taranto, a  formerly lovely town on the Ionian Sea has for the last several decades been dominated by the ILVA steel mill, the largest steel plant in Europe. It was built by the government in the 1960s as a means of delivering jobs to the economically depressed south, but has been implicated for a cancer as dioxin and mercury have seeped into local groundwater, tainting the food supply, while poisoning the bay and its once-lucrative mussels.
    CIPG_20180222_NYT_Puglia_M3_8709.jpg
  • TARANTO, ITALY - 22 FEBRUARY 2018: Five Stars Movement elections posters are seen here in the local headquarters of the movement in the working-class district of Tamburi, in Taranto, Italy, on February 22nd 2018.<br />
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Taranto, a  formerly lovely town on the Ionian Sea has for the last several decades been dominated by the ILVA steel mill, the largest steel plant in Europe. It was built by the government in the 1960s as a means of delivering jobs to the economically depressed south, but has been implicated for a cancer as dioxin and mercury have seeped into local groundwater, tainting the food supply, while poisoning the bay and its once-lucrative mussels.
    CIPG_20180222_NYT_Puglia_M3_8699.jpg
  • TARANTO, ITALY - 22 FEBRUARY 2018: Alessio Peretto (center, 42), who has worked at the ILVA steel mill since 2002 but is nonetheless part of activist group trying to shut it down, is seen here arguing with his uncle and aunt over who to vote in the upcoming Italian General Election, in their 10th floor apartment in the working-class district of Tamburi that looks directly over the neighborhood and on to the steel mill, in Taranto, Italy, on February 22nd 2018.<br />
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Taranto, a  formerly lovely town on the Ionian Sea has for the last several decades been dominated by the ILVA steel mill, the largest steel plant in Europe. It was built by the government in the 1960s as a means of delivering jobs to the economically depressed south, but has been implicated for a cancer as dioxin and mercury have seeped into local groundwater, tainting the food supply, while poisoning the bay and its once-lucrative mussels.
    CIPG_20180222_NYT_Puglia_M3_8560.jpg
  • TARANTO, ITALY - 22 FEBRUARY 2018: Alessio Peretto (center, 42), who has worked at the ILVA steel mill since 2002 but is nonetheless part of activist group trying to shut it down, is seen here arguing with his uncle and aunt over who to vote in the upcoming Italian General Election, in their 10th floor apartment in the working-class district of Tamburi that looks directly over the neighborhood and on to the steel mill, in Taranto, Italy, on February 22nd 2018.<br />
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Taranto, a  formerly lovely town on the Ionian Sea has for the last several decades been dominated by the ILVA steel mill, the largest steel plant in Europe. It was built by the government in the 1960s as a means of delivering jobs to the economically depressed south, but has been implicated for a cancer as dioxin and mercury have seeped into local groundwater, tainting the food supply, while poisoning the bay and its once-lucrative mussels.
    CIPG_20180222_NYT_Puglia_M3_8550.jpg
  • TARANTO, ITALY - 22 FEBRUARY 2018: Alessio Peretto (center, 42), who has worked at the ILVA steel mill since 2002 but is nonetheless part of activist group trying to shut it down, is seen here arguing with his uncle and aunt over who to vote in the upcoming Italian General Election, in their 10th floor apartment in the working-class district of Tamburi that looks directly over the neighborhood and on to the steel mill, in Taranto, Italy, on February 22nd 2018.<br />
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Taranto, a  formerly lovely town on the Ionian Sea has for the last several decades been dominated by the ILVA steel mill, the largest steel plant in Europe. It was built by the government in the 1960s as a means of delivering jobs to the economically depressed south, but has been implicated for a cancer as dioxin and mercury have seeped into local groundwater, tainting the food supply, while poisoning the bay and its once-lucrative mussels.
    CIPG_20180222_NYT_Puglia_M3_8533.jpg
  • TARANTO, ITALY - 22 FEBRUARY 2018: The concrete flats of Tamburi, the working-class district adjacent to the ILVA steel mill, are seen here in Taranto, Italy, on February 22nd 2018.<br />
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Taranto, a  formerly lovely town on the Ionian Sea has for the last several decades been dominated by the ILVA steel mill, the largest steel plant in Europe. It was built by the government in the 1960s as a means of delivering jobs to the economically depressed south, but has been implicated for a cancer as dioxin and mercury have seeped into local groundwater, tainting the food supply, while poisoning the bay and its once-lucrative mussels.
    CIPG_20180222_NYT_Puglia_M3_8518.jpg
  • TARANTO, ITALY - 22 FEBRUARY 2018: The concrete flats of Tamburi, the working-class district adjacent to the ILVA steel mill, are seen here in Taranto, Italy, on February 22nd 2018.<br />
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Taranto, a  formerly lovely town on the Ionian Sea has for the last several decades been dominated by the ILVA steel mill, the largest steel plant in Europe. It was built by the government in the 1960s as a means of delivering jobs to the economically depressed south, but has been implicated for a cancer as dioxin and mercury have seeped into local groundwater, tainting the food supply, while poisoning the bay and its once-lucrative mussels.
    CIPG_20180222_NYT_Puglia_M3_8516.jpg
  • TARANTO, ITALY - 22 FEBRUARY 2018: The concrete flats of Tamburi, the working-class district adjacent to the ILVA steel mill, are seen here in Taranto, Italy, on February 22nd 2018.<br />
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Taranto, a  formerly lovely town on the Ionian Sea has for the last several decades been dominated by the ILVA steel mill, the largest steel plant in Europe. It was built by the government in the 1960s as a means of delivering jobs to the economically depressed south, but has been implicated for a cancer as dioxin and mercury have seeped into local groundwater, tainting the food supply, while poisoning the bay and its once-lucrative mussels.
    CIPG_20180222_NYT_Puglia_M3_8514.jpg
  • TARANTO, ITALY - 22 FEBRUARY 2018: The concrete flats of Tamburi, the working-class district adjacent to the ILVA steel mill, are seen here in Taranto, Italy, on February 22nd 2018.<br />
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Taranto, a  formerly lovely town on the Ionian Sea has for the last several decades been dominated by the ILVA steel mill, the largest steel plant in Europe. It was built by the government in the 1960s as a means of delivering jobs to the economically depressed south, but has been implicated for a cancer as dioxin and mercury have seeped into local groundwater, tainting the food supply, while poisoning the bay and its once-lucrative mussels.
    CIPG_20180222_NYT_Puglia_M3_8513.jpg
  • TARANTO, ITALY - 22 FEBRUARY 2018: The ILVA steel mill and the concrete flats of Tamburi, the adjacent working-class district, are seen here in Taranto, Italy, on February 22nd 2018.<br />
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Taranto, a  formerly lovely town on the Ionian Sea has for the last several decades been dominated by the ILVA steel mill, the largest steel plant in Europe. It was built by the government in the 1960s as a means of delivering jobs to the economically depressed south, but has been implicated for a cancer as dioxin and mercury have seeped into local groundwater, tainting the food supply, while poisoning the bay and its once-lucrative mussels.
    CIPG_20180222_NYT_Puglia_M3_8505.jpg
  • TARANTO, ITALY - 22 FEBRUARY 2018: The ILVA steel mill and the concrete flats of Tamburi, the adjacent working-class district, are seen here in Taranto, Italy, on February 22nd 2018.<br />
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Taranto, a  formerly lovely town on the Ionian Sea has for the last several decades been dominated by the ILVA steel mill, the largest steel plant in Europe. It was built by the government in the 1960s as a means of delivering jobs to the economically depressed south, but has been implicated for a cancer as dioxin and mercury have seeped into local groundwater, tainting the food supply, while poisoning the bay and its once-lucrative mussels.
    CIPG_20180222_NYT_Puglia_M3_8503.jpg
  • TARANTO, ITALY - 22 FEBRUARY 2018: The ILVA steel mill is seen here from Tamburi, the adjacent working-class district, in Taranto, Italy, on February 22nd 2018.<br />
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Taranto, a  formerly lovely town on the Ionian Sea has for the last several decades been dominated by the ILVA steel mill, the largest steel plant in Europe. It was built by the government in the 1960s as a means of delivering jobs to the economically depressed south, but has been implicated for a cancer as dioxin and mercury have seeped into local groundwater, tainting the food supply, while poisoning the bay and its once-lucrative mussels.
    CIPG_20180222_NYT_Puglia_M3_8500.jpg
  • TARANTO, ITALY - 22 FEBRUARY 2018: The ILVA steel mill and the concrete flats of Tamburi, the adjacent working-class district, are seen here in Taranto, Italy, on February 22nd 2018.<br />
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Taranto, a  formerly lovely town on the Ionian Sea has for the last several decades been dominated by the ILVA steel mill, the largest steel plant in Europe. It was built by the government in the 1960s as a means of delivering jobs to the economically depressed south, but has been implicated for a cancer as dioxin and mercury have seeped into local groundwater, tainting the food supply, while poisoning the bay and its once-lucrative mussels.
    CIPG_20180222_NYT_Puglia_M3_8468.jpg
  • TARANTO, ITALY - 22 FEBRUARY 2018: The concrete flats of Tamburi, the working-class district adjacent to the ILVA steel mill, are seen here in Taranto, Italy, on February 22nd 2018.<br />
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Taranto, a  formerly lovely town on the Ionian Sea has for the last several decades been dominated by the ILVA steel mill, the largest steel plant in Europe. It was built by the government in the 1960s as a means of delivering jobs to the economically depressed south, but has been implicated for a cancer as dioxin and mercury have seeped into local groundwater, tainting the food supply, while poisoning the bay and its once-lucrative mussels.
    CIPG_20180222_NYT_Puglia_M3_8453.jpg
  • TARANTO, ITALY - 22 FEBRUARY 2018: The ILVA steel mill and the concrete flats of Tamburi, the adjacent working-class district, are seen here in Taranto, Italy, on February 22nd 2018.<br />
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Taranto, a  formerly lovely town on the Ionian Sea has for the last several decades been dominated by the ILVA steel mill, the largest steel plant in Europe. It was built by the government in the 1960s as a means of delivering jobs to the economically depressed south, but has been implicated for a cancer as dioxin and mercury have seeped into local groundwater, tainting the food supply, while poisoning the bay and its once-lucrative mussels.
    CIPG_20180222_NYT_Puglia_M3_8427.jpg
  • TARANTO, ITALY - 22 FEBRUARY 2018: A teenager walks by a residential building in Tamburi, the working-class district adjacent the ILVA steel mill in Taranto, Italy, on February 22nd 2018.<br />
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Taranto, a  formerly lovely town on the Ionian Sea has for the last several decades been dominated by the ILVA steel mill, the largest steel plant in Europe. It was built by the government in the 1960s as a means of delivering jobs to the economically depressed south, but has been implicated for a cancer as dioxin and mercury have seeped into local groundwater, tainting the food supply, while poisoning the bay and its once-lucrative mussels.
    CIPG_20180222_NYT_Puglia_M3_8410.jpg
  • TARANTO, ITALY - 22 FEBRUARY 2018: A Telecom telecommunications repeater is seen here next to the residential buildings in Tamburi, the working-class district adjacent the ILVA steel mill in Taranto, Italy, on February 22nd 2018.<br />
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Taranto, a  formerly lovely town on the Ionian Sea has for the last several decades been dominated by the ILVA steel mill, the largest steel plant in Europe. It was built by the government in the 1960s as a means of delivering jobs to the economically depressed south, but has been implicated for a cancer as dioxin and mercury have seeped into local groundwater, tainting the food supply, while poisoning the bay and its once-lucrative mussels.
    CIPG_20180222_NYT_Puglia_M3_8409.jpg
  • TARANTO, ITALY - 22 FEBRUARY 2018: (L-R) Alessio Peretto (42), who has worked at the ILVA steel mill since 200  but is nonetheless part of activist group trying to shut it down, and Luca Greco, a 30 years-old unemployed man living with his parents in Tamburi, the working-class district adjacent ILVA, chat at the Mini Bar in Taranto, Italy, on February 22nd 2018.<br />
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Taranto, a  formerly lovely town on the Ionian Sea has for the last several decades been dominated by the ILVA steel mill, the largest steel plant in Europe. It was built by the government in the 1960s as a means of delivering jobs to the economically depressed south, but has been implicated for a cancer as dioxin and mercury have seeped into local groundwater, tainting the food supply, while poisoning the bay and its once-lucrative mussels.
    CIPG_20180222_NYT_Puglia_M3_8381.jpg
  • TARANTO, ITALY - 22 FEBRUARY 2018: Alessio Peretto (42), who has worked at the ILVA steel mill since 200  but is nonetheless part of activist group trying to shut it down, poses for a portrait in fron the plant in Taranto, Italy, on February 22nd 2018.<br />
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Taranto, a  formerly lovely town on the Ionian Sea has for the last several decades been dominated by the ILVA steel mill, the largest steel plant in Europe. It was built by the government in the 1960s as a means of delivering jobs to the economically depressed south, but has been implicated for a cancer as dioxin and mercury have seeped into local groundwater, tainting the food supply, while poisoning the bay and its once-lucrative mussels.
    CIPG_20180222_NYT_Puglia_M3_8276.jpg
  • TARANTO, ITALY - 22 FEBRUARY 2018: Alessio Peretto (42), who has worked at the ILVA steel mill since 200  but is nonetheless part of activist group trying to shut it down, poses for a portrait in fron the plant in Taranto, Italy, on February 22nd 2018.<br />
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Taranto, a  formerly lovely town on the Ionian Sea has for the last several decades been dominated by the ILVA steel mill, the largest steel plant in Europe. It was built by the government in the 1960s as a means of delivering jobs to the economically depressed south, but has been implicated for a cancer as dioxin and mercury have seeped into local groundwater, tainting the food supply, while poisoning the bay and its once-lucrative mussels.
    CIPG_20180222_NYT_Puglia_M3_8268.jpg
  • TARANTO, ITALY - 22 FEBRUARY 2018: Alessio Peretto (42), who has worked at the ILVA steel mill since 200  but is nonetheless part of activist group trying to shut it down, poses for a portrait in fron the plant in Taranto, Italy, on February 22nd 2018.<br />
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Taranto, a  formerly lovely town on the Ionian Sea has for the last several decades been dominated by the ILVA steel mill, the largest steel plant in Europe. It was built by the government in the 1960s as a means of delivering jobs to the economically depressed south, but has been implicated for a cancer as dioxin and mercury have seeped into local groundwater, tainting the food supply, while poisoning the bay and its once-lucrative mussels.
    CIPG_20180222_NYT_Puglia_M3_8267.jpg
  • TARANTO, ITALY - 22 FEBRUARY 2018: Alessio Peretto (42), who has worked at the ILVA steel mill since 200  but is nonetheless part of activist group trying to shut it down, poses for a portrait in fron the plant in Taranto, Italy, on February 22nd 2018.<br />
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Taranto, a  formerly lovely town on the Ionian Sea has for the last several decades been dominated by the ILVA steel mill, the largest steel plant in Europe. It was built by the government in the 1960s as a means of delivering jobs to the economically depressed south, but has been implicated for a cancer as dioxin and mercury have seeped into local groundwater, tainting the food supply, while poisoning the bay and its once-lucrative mussels.
    CIPG_20180222_NYT_Puglia_M3_8260.jpg
  • TARANTO, ITALY - 22 FEBRUARY 2018: Employees of the ILVA steel mill walk out of the plant after finishing their early morning shift, in Taranto, Italy, on February 22nd 2018.<br />
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Taranto, a  formerly lovely town on the Ionian Sea has for the last several decades been dominated by the ILVA steel mill, the largest steel plant in Europe. It was built by the government in the 1960s as a means of delivering jobs to the economically depressed south, but has been implicated for a cancer as dioxin and mercury have seeped into local groundwater, tainting the food supply, while poisoning the bay and its once-lucrative mussels.
    CIPG_20180222_NYT_Puglia_M3_8181.jpg
  • TARANTO, ITALY - 22 FEBRUARY 2018: Emplyees of the ILVA steel mill chat after finishing their early morning shift, at the exit of the plant in Taranto, Italy, on February 22nd 2018.<br />
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Taranto, a  formerly lovely town on the Ionian Sea has for the last several decades been dominated by the ILVA steel mill, the largest steel plant in Europe. It was built by the government in the 1960s as a means of delivering jobs to the economically depressed south, but has been implicated for a cancer as dioxin and mercury have seeped into local groundwater, tainting the food supply, while poisoning the bay and its once-lucrative mussels.
    CIPG_20180222_NYT_Puglia_M3_8177.jpg
  • TARANTO, ITALY - 22 FEBRUARY 2018: Employees of the ILVA steel mill walk out of the plant after finishing their early morning shift, in Taranto, Italy, on February 22nd 2018.<br />
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Taranto, a  formerly lovely town on the Ionian Sea has for the last several decades been dominated by the ILVA steel mill, the largest steel plant in Europe. It was built by the government in the 1960s as a means of delivering jobs to the economically depressed south, but has been implicated for a cancer as dioxin and mercury have seeped into local groundwater, tainting the food supply, while poisoning the bay and its once-lucrative mussels.
    CIPG_20180222_NYT_Puglia_M3_8052.jpg
  • TARANTO, ITALY - 22 FEBRUARY 2018: An ILVA employee walks by and ignores Raffaella Loperfido (46), a union activist distributing flyers and telling employees not to vote in the upcoming Italian General Elections, in Taranto, Italy, on February 22nd 2018.<br />
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Taranto, a  formerly lovely town on the Ionian Sea has for the last several decades been dominated by the ILVA steel mill, the largest steel plant in Europe. It was built by the government in the 1960s as a means of delivering jobs to the economically depressed south, but has been implicated for a cancer as dioxin and mercury have seeped into local groundwater, tainting the food supply, while poisoning the bay and its once-lucrative mussels.
    CIPG_20180222_NYT_Puglia_M3_8026.jpg
  • TARANTO, ITALY - 22 FEBRUARY 2018: An employee of the ILVA steel mill walks out of the plant after finishing his early morning shift, in Taranto, Italy, on February 22nd 2018.<br />
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Taranto, a  formerly lovely town on the Ionian Sea has for the last several decades been dominated by the ILVA steel mill, the largest steel plant in Europe. It was built by the government in the 1960s as a means of delivering jobs to the economically depressed south, but has been implicated for a cancer as dioxin and mercury have seeped into local groundwater, tainting the food supply, while poisoning the bay and its once-lucrative mussels.
    CIPG_20180222_NYT_Puglia_M3_7911.jpg
  • TARANTO, ITALY - 22 FEBRUARY 2018: The entrance to the ILVA steel mill is seen here in Taranto, Italy, on February 22nd 2018.<br />
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Taranto, a  formerly lovely town on the Ionian Sea has for the last several decades been dominated by the ILVA steel mill, the largest steel plant in Europe. It was built by the government in the 1960s as a means of delivering jobs to the economically depressed south, but has been implicated for a cancer as dioxin and mercury have seeped into local groundwater, tainting the food supply, while poisoning the bay and its once-lucrative mussels.
    CIPG_20180222_NYT_Puglia_M3_7858.jpg
  • TARANTO, ITALY - 22 FEBRUARY 2018: A funeral notice an ILVA employee's relative is seen here at the entrance of the ILVA steel mill in Taranto, Italy, on February 22nd 2018.<br />
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Taranto, a  formerly lovely town on the Ionian Sea has for the last several decades been dominated by the ILVA steel mill, the largest steel plant in Europe. It was built by the government in the 1960s as a means of delivering jobs to the economically depressed south, but has been implicated for a cancer as dioxin and mercury have seeped into local groundwater, tainting the food supply, while poisoning the bay and its once-lucrative mussels.
    CIPG_20180222_NYT_Puglia_M3_7852.jpg
  • TARANTO, ITALY - 22 FEBRUARY 2018: (L-R) Ignazio D'Andria, owner of the Mini Bar, and Giulio Vecchione (47), an ILVA contractor who provides transportation services, are seen here at the Mini Bar in Tamburi, the working-class district adjacent the ILVA steel mill in Taranto, Italy, on February 22nd 2018.<br />
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Taranto, a  formerly lovely town on the Ionian Sea has for the last several decades been dominated by the ILVA steel mill, the largest steel plant in Europe. It was built by the government in the 1960s as a means of delivering jobs to the economically depressed south, but has been implicated for a cancer as dioxin and mercury have seeped into local groundwater, tainting the food supply, while poisoning the bay and its once-lucrative mussels.
    CIPG_20180222_NYT_Puglia_M3_7845.jpg
  • TARANTO, ITALY - 22 FEBRUARY 2018: Ignazio D'Andria, owner of the Mini Bar, chats with customers in Tamburi, the working-class district adjacent the ILVA steel mill in Taranto, Italy, on February 22nd 2018.<br />
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Taranto, a  formerly lovely town on the Ionian Sea has for the last several decades been dominated by the ILVA steel mill, the largest steel plant in Europe. It was built by the government in the 1960s as a means of delivering jobs to the economically depressed south, but has been implicated for a cancer as dioxin and mercury have seeped into local groundwater, tainting the food supply, while poisoning the bay and its once-lucrative mussels.
    CIPG_20180222_NYT_Puglia_M3_7819.jpg
  • TARANTO, ITALY - 22 FEBRUARY 2018: Customers are seen here at the Mini Bar owned by Ignazio D'Andria in Tamburi, the working-class district adjacent the ILVA steel mill in Taranto, Italy, on February 22nd 2018.<br />
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Taranto, a  formerly lovely town on the Ionian Sea has for the last several decades been dominated by the ILVA steel mill, the largest steel plant in Europe. It was built by the government in the 1960s as a means of delivering jobs to the economically depressed south, but has been implicated for a cancer as dioxin and mercury have seeped into local groundwater, tainting the food supply, while poisoning the bay and its once-lucrative mussels.
    CIPG_20180222_NYT_Puglia_M3_7784.jpg
  • TARANTO, ITALY - 22 FEBRUARY 2018: Customers are seen here at the Mini Bar owned by Ignazio D'Andria in Tamburi, the working-class district adjacent the ILVA steel mill in Taranto, Italy, on February 22nd 2018.<br />
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Taranto, a  formerly lovely town on the Ionian Sea has for the last several decades been dominated by the ILVA steel mill, the largest steel plant in Europe. It was built by the government in the 1960s as a means of delivering jobs to the economically depressed south, but has been implicated for a cancer as dioxin and mercury have seeped into local groundwater, tainting the food supply, while poisoning the bay and its once-lucrative mussels.
    CIPG_20180222_NYT_Puglia_M3_7776.jpg
  • TARANTO, ITALY - 22 FEBRUARY 2018: Ignazio D'Andria, owner of the Mini Bar, chats with customers in Tamburi, the working-class district adjacent the ILVA steel mill in Taranto, Italy, on February 22nd 2018.<br />
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Taranto, a  formerly lovely town on the Ionian Sea has for the last several decades been dominated by the ILVA steel mill, the largest steel plant in Europe. It was built by the government in the 1960s as a means of delivering jobs to the economically depressed south, but has been implicated for a cancer as dioxin and mercury have seeped into local groundwater, tainting the food supply, while poisoning the bay and its once-lucrative mussels.
    CIPG_20180222_NYT_Puglia_M3_7635.jpg
  • TARANTO, ITALY - 22 FEBRUARY 2018: An old photograph of Taranto before the construction of the ILVA steel mill is seen here at the Mini Bar in Tamburi, the working-class district adjacent the ILVA steel mill in Taranto, Italy, on February 22nd 2018.<br />
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Taranto, a  formerly lovely town on the Ionian Sea has for the last several decades been dominated by the ILVA steel mill, the largest steel plant in Europe. It was built by the government in the 1960s as a means of delivering jobs to the economically depressed south, but has been implicated for a cancer as dioxin and mercury have seeped into local groundwater, tainting the food supply, while poisoning the bay and its once-lucrative mussels.
    CIPG_20180222_NYT_Puglia_M3_7596.jpg
  • TARANTO, ITALY - 22 FEBRUARY 2018: A t-shirt saying "I'm crazy about", produced by the owner of the Mini Bar Ignazio D'Andria for a fundraising to oncology specialists in Taranto, is seen here at the Mini Bar in Tamburi, the working-class district adjacent the ILVA steel mill in Taranto, Italy, on February 22nd 2018.<br />
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Taranto, a  formerly lovely town on the Ionian Sea has for the last several decades been dominated by the ILVA steel mill, the largest steel plant in Europe. It was built by the government in the 1960s as a means of delivering jobs to the economically depressed south, but has been implicated for a cancer as dioxin and mercury have seeped into local groundwater, tainting the food supply, while poisoning the bay and its once-lucrative mussels.
    CIPG_20180222_NYT_Puglia_M3_7593.jpg
  • RUTIGLIANO, ITALY - 21 FEBRUARY 2018: A pasta spreader machine is seen here at the Divella pasta factory in Rutigliano, Italy, on February 21st 2018.<br />
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Opened in 1895, the plant just outside the regional capital of Bari is run by the grandson of the founder, Francesco Divella. Divella has exports grow substantially and is a prime example of the success of the region in recent years. Yet this has led to very few jobs, given that the plant is highly automated, with more on the way: they just bought a self-driving forklift to handle warehouse work and have already deployed robotic arms that place product into boxes. Divella is an example of how Italy's recent success is not lifting enough people to make a difference in sentiment.
    CIPG_20180221_NYT_Puglia_M3_6432.jpg
  • RUTIGLIANO, ITALY - 21 FEBRUARY 2018: Pasta is automatically poured into a conveyer belt after being shaped by a machine at the Divella pasta factory in Rutigliano, Italy, on February 21st 2018.<br />
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Opened in 1895, the plant just outside the regional capital of Bari is run by the grandson of the founder, Francesco Divella. It produces a vast range of pasta that is exported in more than 30 countries. Divella has exports grow substantially and is a prime example of the success of the region in recent years. Yet this has led to very few jobs, given that the plant is highly automated, with more on the way: they just bought a self-driving forklift to handle warehouse work and have already deployed robotic arms that place product into boxes. Divella is an example of how Italy's recent success is not lifting enough people to make a difference in sentiment.
    CIPG_20180221_NYT_Puglia_M3_6380.jpg
  • RUTIGLIANO, ITALY - 21 FEBRUARY 2018: Spaghettis are seen here going through a stripping machine during the pasta production process at the Divella pasta factory in Rutigliano, Italy, on February 21st 2018.<br />
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Opened in 1895, the plant just outside the regional capital of Bari is run by the grandson of the founder, Francesco Divella. It produces a vast range of pasta that is exported in more than 30 countries. Divella has exports grow substantially and is a prime example of the success of the region in recent years. Yet this has led to very few jobs, given that the plant is highly automated, with more on the way: they just bought a self-driving forklift to handle warehouse work and have already deployed robotic arms that place product into boxes. Divella is an example of how Italy's recent success is not lifting enough people to make a difference in sentiment.
    CIPG_20180221_NYT_Puglia_M3_6149.jpg
  • RUTIGLIANO, ITALY - 21 FEBRUARY 2018: Francesco Divella, CEO of Divella SpA, poses for a portrait at the Divella pasta factory in Rutigliano, Italy, on February 21st 2018.<br />
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Opened in 1895, the plant just outside the regional capital of Bari is run by the grandson of the founder, Francesco Divella. Divella has exports grow substantially and is a prime example of the success of the region in recent years. Yet this has led to very few jobs, given that the plant is highly automated, with more on the way: they just bought a self-driving forklift to handle warehouse work and have already deployed robotic arms that place product into boxes. Divella is an example of how Italy's recent success is not lifting enough people to make a difference in sentiment.
    CIPG_20180221_NYT_Puglia_M3_5980.jpg
  • TARANTO, ITALY - 22 FEBRUARY 2018: A plaque saying "During the days North-North-West wind, we are buried by mineral dust and suffocated by gas emissions coming from the ILVA industrial plant. For this reason we damn those who could and won't do anything to fix this", in Tamburi, the working-class district adjacent the ILVA steel mill in Taranto, Italy, on February 22nd 2018.<br />
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Taranto, a  formerly lovely town on the Ionian Sea has for the last several decades been dominated by the ILVA steel mill, the largest steel plant in Europe. It was built by the government in the 1960s as a means of delivering jobs to the economically depressed south, but has been implicated for a cancer as dioxin and mercury have seeped into local groundwater, tainting the food supply, while poisoning the bay and its once-lucrative mussels.
    CIPG_20180222_NYT_Puglia_M3_8751.jpg
  • TARANTO, ITALY - 22 FEBRUARY 2018: The ILVA steel mill and the concrete flats of Tamburi, the adjacent working-class district, are seen here in Taranto, Italy, on February 22nd 2018.<br />
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Taranto, a  formerly lovely town on the Ionian Sea has for the last several decades been dominated by the ILVA steel mill, the largest steel plant in Europe. It was built by the government in the 1960s as a means of delivering jobs to the economically depressed south, but has been implicated for a cancer as dioxin and mercury have seeped into local groundwater, tainting the food supply, while poisoning the bay and its once-lucrative mussels.
    CIPG_20180222_NYT_Puglia_M3_8433.jpg
  • TARANTO, ITALY - 22 FEBRUARY 2018: A teenager walks by a residential building in Tamburi, the working-class district adjacent the ILVA steel mill in Taranto, Italy, on February 22nd 2018.<br />
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Taranto, a  formerly lovely town on the Ionian Sea has for the last several decades been dominated by the ILVA steel mill, the largest steel plant in Europe. It was built by the government in the 1960s as a means of delivering jobs to the economically depressed south, but has been implicated for a cancer as dioxin and mercury have seeped into local groundwater, tainting the food supply, while poisoning the bay and its once-lucrative mussels.
    CIPG_20180222_NYT_Puglia_M3_8420.jpg
  • TARANTO, ITALY - 22 FEBRUARY 2018: A Telecom telecommunications repeater is seen here next to the residential buildings in Tamburi, the working-class district adjacent the ILVA steel mill in Taranto, Italy, on February 22nd 2018.<br />
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Taranto, a  formerly lovely town on the Ionian Sea has for the last several decades been dominated by the ILVA steel mill, the largest steel plant in Europe. It was built by the government in the 1960s as a means of delivering jobs to the economically depressed south, but has been implicated for a cancer as dioxin and mercury have seeped into local groundwater, tainting the food supply, while poisoning the bay and its once-lucrative mussels.
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  • TARANTO, ITALY - 22 FEBRUARY 2018: (L-R) Alessio Peretto (42), who has worked at the ILVA steel mill since 200  but is nonetheless part of activist group trying to shut it down, and Luca Greco, a 30 years-old unemployed man living with his parents in Tamburi, the working-class district adjacent ILVA, chat at the Mini Bar in Taranto, Italy, on February 22nd 2018.<br />
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Taranto, a  formerly lovely town on the Ionian Sea has for the last several decades been dominated by the ILVA steel mill, the largest steel plant in Europe. It was built by the government in the 1960s as a means of delivering jobs to the economically depressed south, but has been implicated for a cancer as dioxin and mercury have seeped into local groundwater, tainting the food supply, while poisoning the bay and its once-lucrative mussels.
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