Quanti sono i disoccupati? Misurare il non lavoro in tempo di crisi. Un percorso di analisi dagli anni Trenta a oggi

2019

This chapter seeks to explore the complex interaction between statistical devices, socio-economic processes and political practice with reference to the problem of unemployment in twentieth-century Italy, comparing three moments of economic crisis in which the lack of work assumed particular relevance in the public debate and in the life of workers (the 1930s, the 1970s and the last recession that began in 2007), focusing on the problems related to the measurement of work and non-work.

Saverio Scrofani

2018

Nicolò Turrisi Colonna

2020

La disoccupazione in Italia fra le due guerre mondiali

2019

At the end of the 1920s the reduction of unemployment represented one of the goal of the fascist regime. To achieve this goal the state should have produced a reliable statistical information, and it should have dealt also with the placement, the execution of public works, the reclamation and especially the battle for ruralization. The target was not achieved: despite the proclamations and the announcements, until the mid-1930s the fascist economic policy did not improve neither the workers’ conditions nor the levels of employment. As shown by official data, unemployment regularly increased between 1925 and 1933. This statistical information is not completely reliable, as confirmed by a deb…

The History of Jobless Italy

2018

This article provides an overall look at the history of unemployment in Italy from unification up to the present day, including the changes in the many different economic, social and political aspects of the phenomenon. At the time of Italian unification, people's notions were still rather vague as to who the unemployed actually were. Between the end of the Nineteenth century and the First World War, for the first time, it became evident that responsibility needed to be taken for involuntary joblessness as a political and social problem. However, it was only after fascism and the tragedy of the Second World War that the entire Italian legal system was rebuilt around the principle of the rig…

L'Italia senza lavoro

2019

The 2007-8 economic crisis has produced an aggravation of imbalances already existing in the Italian labour market. As Istat has highlighted, in the last few years the distances that separate the various generations and categories in the labour market have grown: citizens with different levels of education, the North and the South, the Italians and foreigners. Long-term unemployment also increased during the years of the crisis, another typical feature of the Italian labour market.

A.O. Hirschman, The Postwar Economic Order. National Reconstruction and International Cooperation, Edited by Michele Alacevich and Pier Francesco Ass…

2023

Il potere dei numeri. I primi anni di vita dell’Istituto centrale di statistica

2018

In the early 1920s, many European countries called for the creation of new national statistical offices to coordinate statistical analysis in support of governments' action, due also to the new role taken on by the State after WWI. In Italy the reorganization and strengthening of official statistics were two objectives consistent with the centralization of powers pursued by Fascism, and it is therefore no coincidence that during the twenties the reforms of the statistical service - starting with the foundation in 1926 of the Central Institute of Statistics (Istat) - were carried out by the new government led by Benito Mussolini. This essay will use published and archival documents to explor…

Giacinto Scelsi

2018

Franco Rodolfo Savorgnan

2018

Stefano Fenoaltea, Reconstructing the Past. Revised Estimates of Italy’s Product, 1861-1913, Fondazione Luigi Einaudi, Turin, 2020

2021

La lotta alla disoccupazione e alla povertà nell’esperienza della Società Umanitaria di Milano (1893-1915)

2018

This paper focuses on the crucial role played by the Humanitarian Society of Milan in combating poverty and unemployment, mainly in the transition from a traditional concept of assistance, which was private and confessional, to a more modern idea of public assistance, inspired by secular, liberal and socialist reformism.

G. Cingolani, Le assicurazioni private in Italia. Gestione del rischio e sicurezza sociale dall'Unità a oggi, il Mulino, Bologna 2019

2020

Istituzioni, disuguaglianze, economia in Italia. Una visione diacronica

2019

Massimo Zanetti beverage group

2020

Critica del liberismo in Italia

2021

Felice Vinci

2020

Senza lavoro : la disoccupazione in Italia dall'Unità a oggi

2016

Al momento dell’Unità il lavoro era molto spesso un’esperienza discontinua. Ci si adattava trovando fonti alternative di sostentamento, esercitando diverse attività o spostandosi alla ricerca di un’occupazione. A fine Ottocento nasce una nuova consapevolezza: la mancanza di lavoro è una forma di ingiustizia contro cui occorre lottare. Chi non ha lavoro, e non per sua volontà, non tollera più di essere additato come ozioso o vagabondo. Più tardi il fascismo favorirà il mantenimento di bassi salari e la lotta alla disoccupazione diventerà poco più che uno slogan propagandistico. Sarà solo dopo il disastro della seconda guerra mondiale, in un’Italia con milioni di disoccupati, che l’intero ord…

Luciano Lama. Il riformatore unitario. Antologia di Scritti

2018

Storia globale del capitalismo dal 1860 al 1914

2022

Cremonini

2020

Tra Stato e mercato: l'economia italiana nei turbolenti anni Settanta

2019

During the 1970s, Italy faced the decline of the political and economic order that had emerged in the first post-war decades, which in Western countries was characterised by financial stability, affirmation of mass industry, economic planning, sustained growth in income and consumption and an improvement in the living conditions of the working class. In Italy too, in the course of the 1970s, the model was at the top of the success on the one hand and showed unequivocal signs of exhaustion on the other. It was, for Italy and elsewhere, a transition prompted by causes of both an economic and political nature, and which came to an end in many ways in the 1980s.