Rare tablet of the first Romitian production, which reveals in the thematic choice the socialist inclinations of the then very young painter of modest origins. Going to the factory dates back to 1901, a date shortly after the artist's official debut at the Permanente di Milano in 1898. From Livorno, trained at the school of Guglielmo Micheli, where he met Giovanni Fattori and obtained his support and esteem, Romiti managed to combine in the small oil the suggestions of the burning social issues with the essential principles of Macchiaioli painting, reworked in a very personal key with further discoveries on the vibration of the color of the Divisionists. Conceived within a small rectangular format, Romiti places ghosts of men along a road surrounded by the countryside as dark shadows walking towards the factory, whose profile in the distance is defined by the low volumes of the illuminated warehouses and the slender vertical chimneys of the soaring chimneys. Surprising in the minute oil is the diversified use of colors, diluted with extreme lightness on the careful preliminary drawing to create very fine transparencies that allow the texture of the veins of the wooden support to emerge.