| Summary: | The spatial effects of the profound transformations of industry, including those that have been taking place with the massive use of subcontracting, are not very tangible in the spaces of industry. However, the two authors, one a photographer and the other a geographer, set about making them visible, on the occasion of a commission from the Gadagne Museum of History in Lyon. Starting from the observation that employers' policies have differed over time with regard to two categories of workers, the statutory employees of the chemical industry and the subcontractors of these same large companies, we wanted to bring to light the differences in housing policies, as indicators of a major transformation of the organization of work in the chemical industry. Our aim here is to explain the process of the joint production of a geo-photographic museum work, in order to take account of the consequent changes in the living conditions of the employees, which are not very visible in the everyday spaces of production and reproduction of labour power.
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