SEWING FOR BREAD

When the “Ramon Sewing Workshop” announced it was closing down, 57 women refused to accept this “death sentence” and embarked on a heroic campaign to protect their income. For 5 weeks they entrenched themselves and their children at the plant, refusing to part from their sewing machines – determined to go all the way. Even the women themselves were surprised, when the workshop reopened as an independent co-operative owned by the women themselves. Overnight they became Israel’s working class heroes. For 2 years the directors followed their story. They documented their battle against the establishment and the conflicts that arose between family life and their new responsibilities and commitments – as well as internal inter-personal crises.