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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…
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…
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.
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.