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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Eloisa Betti (Adjunct Professor of Labor History, University of Bologna)Publisher: Central European University Press Imprint: Central European University Press Weight: 0.529kg ISBN: 9789633864371ISBN 10: 9633864372 Pages: 268 Publication Date: 30 December 2022 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsACKNOWLEGMENTS AND NOTE TO THE ENGLISH EDITION INTRODUCTION 1. THE OTHER FACE OF THE BOOM: THE DISCOVERY OF PRECARITY 1.1. The invention of precarity: Paolo Sylos Labini’s contribution 1.1.1 The inquiry into Sicily 1.1.2 The Fuà–Sylos Labini proposal for economic planning 1.1.3 The reception of Sylos Labini between Rome and Geneva 1.2 Precarity thy name is woman: genesis of a debate 1.2.1 The CGIL’s female trade-unionists 1.2.2 The Union of Italian Women 1.2.3 Communist Women 1.2.4 The National Commission for Women Workers 1.3 Against precarity: the fight for job stability 1.3.1 Invisible precarity: industrial homeworkers 1.3.2 Precarity in the field: the dream of being employees 1.3.3 Against bogus seasonal work: food workers 1.3.4 For a secure annual wage: construction workers 1.3.5 Precarity on the ward: the hospital doctors’ dispute 2. THE CONSTRUCTION OF STABLE WORK BETWEEN PARLIAMENT AND LABOR LAW 2.1 The parliamentary inquiry into workers’ conditions in Italy 2.1.1 A political alliance for the improvement of the working classes’ conditions 2.1.2 “Precarity” in the parliamentary inquiry documents 2.1.3 The parliamentary inquiry and the new labor law 2.2 The legislation on “non-standard” labor relationships in the boom years 2.2.1 Industrial homework 2.2.2 Sub-contracting work 2.2. Fixed-term contract 2.3 New regulations on dismissals in the nineteen-sixties 2.3.1 Dismissal for marriage 2.3.3 Individual dismissal 3. STABILITY OR PRECARITY? THE TWO FACES OG THE LONG SEVENTIES 3.1 The achievement of stability 3.1.1 The Statute of Workers’ Rights and Article 18 3.1.2 The new industrial homework law 3.2 In the shadow of the crisis: industrial restructuring and precarity 3.2.1 Precarious work in the studies of the seventies 3.2.2 Decentralization of production and precarity: the metalworking and textile- industries 3.3 Intellectual precarity and intellectual elaboration on precarity 3.3.1 Precarity and the female question 3.3.2 Precarity and the 1977 movement 3.3.3 Intellectual precarity between schools and universities 4. THE MYTH OF FLEXIBILITY IN THE ROARING EIGHTIES 4.1 The flexibility paradigm in socio-economic studies 4.1.1 Flexibility and precarity in the international debate 4.1.2 The myth of flexibility and the eclipse of precarity in the Italian debate 4.2 Labor policies and legislative changes in the shadow of flexibility 4.2.1 Flexibility in the Parliament: the Craxi government’s reforms 4.2.2 Labor legislation and the flexibility challenge: atypical contracts 4.2.3 Bargained flexibility in eighties trade-union debate and collective agreements 4.3 The utopia of flexibility between freedom and liberation from work 4.3.1 Post-Fordism, flexibility and freedom 4.3.2 The femininization and flexibilization of work 5. THE NEW EXPLOSION OF PRECARIOUS WORK BETWEEN THE NINETIES AND THE NOUGHTIES 5.1 Legislative changes and labor policy between the old and new millennia 5.1.1 The European Employment Strategy and the flexicurity myth 5.1.2 From the 1992 Protocol to the Treu Reform (1997) 5.1.3 The White Paper and the Biagi Law (2003) 5.1.4 The inquiry into the precariat (2006) and the Prodi government’s failure to reform 5.1.5 The “Workers’ Statute”: from the idea to the bill (1997-2006) 5.2 Precarious subjectivity and new forms of self-organization in the new millennium 5.2.1 A “new” social class? Forms, dimensions and definitions of precariat 5.2.2 From Mayday to Euro Mayday: a European movement against precarity 5.2.3 Precarity thy name is (also) women: feminist subjectivity in the new millennium 5.3 Precarity between cultural representations and unions’ elaboration 5.3.1 The cultures of Precarity 5.3.2 From invisibility to social emergency: precarians and the public debate 5.3.3 Representing the precarians: the birth and development of atypical workers’ trade unions 6. THE NORMALIZATION OF PRECARITY IN THE GLOBAL CRISIS YEARS 6.1 Precarity and the global crisis: a necessary periodization 6.1.1 New frontiers of precarity amid exploitation, unemployment and unpaid labor 6.1.2 The normalization of precarity between the public debate and the labor market 6.1.3 Precarity and emigration: an outsider view of Italy 6.2 Precarity and legislative reform during the crisis years: a short overview 6.2.1 The Fornero Law (2012) 6.2.2 The Jobs Act (2014) 6.2.3 The debate on Article 18 6.3 Against Precarity: mobilization, campaigns and forms of resistance 6.3.1 Precarity and gender discrimination: against blank resignation letters 6.3.2 Precarity and new slavery: against caporalato 6.3.3 Precarity and research: the mobilization across the universities 6.3.4 Beyond precarity: a charter for universal labor rights? EPILOGUEReviewsPrecarious Workers is a very timely study of an increasingly important subject. There is little enough English-language material on Italian labor, and even less that addresses the issue of labor precarity from a feminist-gender perspective. With its focus on Italy, but with an awareness of developments outside of it, this story contributes a historical understanding to the existing international literature on the phenomenon of precarity. In so doing, the book fills a gap in our understanding of the global problem of precarious work, while bringing a fresh perspective to the subject. We need more studies like this. --Diane Kirkby This is a highly original book. In terms of ambition, the scope of the research, and the rich conceptualization, this book is among the most significant works on precarious labour not only in Italy but internationally. It is perhaps in its combination of social and intellectual history that the originality of this book comes through most clearly. Betti achieves a fine balance between highlighting Italian peculiarities and offering a wider, internationally relevant framework. As this Italian case study illuminates wider contradictions, it will be of great interest to not only scholars of modern Italy, but to labor, social, and gender historians of the industrialized world more broadly. --Maud Anne Bracke """Precarious Workers is a very timely study of an increasingly important subject. There is little enough English-language material on Italian labor, and even less that addresses the issue of labor precarity from a feminist-gender perspective. With its focus on Italy, but with an awareness of developments outside of it, this story contributes a historical understanding to the existing international literature on the phenomenon of precarity. In so doing, the book fills a gap in our understanding of the global problem of precarious work, while bringing a fresh perspective to the subject. We need more studies like this.""--Diane Kirkby ""This is a highly original book. In terms of ambition, the scope of the research, and the rich conceptualization, this book is among the most significant works on precarious labour not only in Italy but internationally. It is perhaps in its combination of social and intellectual history that the originality of this book comes through most clearly. Betti achieves a fine balance between highlighting Italian peculiarities and offering a wider, internationally relevant framework. As this Italian case study illuminates wider contradictions, it will be of great interest to not only scholars of modern Italy, but to labor, social, and gender historians of the industrialized world more broadly.""--Maud Anne Bracke" Author InformationDr. Eloisa Betti is Adjunct Professor of Labor History at the University of Bologna. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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