10.000 yellow helmets at milan's stock exchange

10.000 yellow helmets at milan’s stock exchange a general view of the protest installationall images courtesy milano today, corriere di milano, ANSA

for italian workers in the construction industry, crippled by the recession, yesterday was ‘la giornata della collera’ – ‘the day of anger’. in front of the milan stock exchange workers, laborers, clerks, surveyors, architects and real estate agents brought attention to a sector that in the past five years,  according to data from the center for economic research and market sociology, has lost 157 thousand companies as well as 893 thousand employees.

the helmets are symbolizing workers without jobs

the visually striking protest announces social emergency