The sun rises over the town of Villacañas, SpainPhotograph: Jasper Juinen/Getty ImagesMaterials are scattered around an old workbench inside the abandoned Mavisa door factory. During the construction boom in Spain, the majority of the doors used in new developments were made in this small industrial townPhotograph: Jasper Juinen/Getty ImagesTwo men drag unfinished doors behind them to be burned on their stoves at homePhotograph: Jasper Juinen/Getty Images
Clocking-in cards inside the abandoned factory. Approximately 7m doors a year were once assembled here, while the factory employed a workforce of almost 5,700 peoplePhotograph: Jasper Juinen/Getty ImagesThe factory entrancePhotograph: Jasper Juinen/Getty ImagesFifty-year-old former door-factory worker Luis Gonzales, right, who received his last welfare payment this month, waits with others at a Red Cross post for a food handoutPhotograph: Jasper Juinen/Getty ImagesA closed-down Intermarche supermarket stands deserted Photograph: Jasper Juinen/Getty ImagesChildren play in Calle Mayor in VillacañasPhotograph: Jasper Juinen/Getty ImagesA salesman packs up his unsold vegetables after a day on the local marketPhotograph: Jasper Juinen/Getty ImagesLaid-off workers from the Artevi door factory chat during a picket to prevent machinery leaving the factory, demanding salary payments and a settlement – some for over 25 years' work Photograph: Jasper Juinen/Getty ImagesA Red Cross worker arranges boxes of biscuits while unemployed Villacañas residents wait in line for a handoutPhotograph: Jasper Juinen/Getty ImagesCalle Mayor is empty on a Friday night – a typical night for Spaniards to shop and go out. Villacañas is typical of many former buoyant industrial Spanish towns now struggling with huge unemployment problemsPhotograph: Jasper Juinen/Getty ImagesMaria Regine Bueno Villar and her husband, former door-factory worker Angel Perez Fernandez, sort through food they received at a Red Cross pointPhotograph: Jasper Juinen/Getty ImagesA barman chats with his only customer on a Friday nightPhotograph: Jasper Juinen/Getty ImagesAlso on a Friday night, a barman surfs the internet on his laptop inside his empty venue on Plaza MayorPhotograph: Jasper Juinen/Getty Images
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