Precarious Workers

Precarious Workers

History of Debates, Political Mobilization, and Labor Reforms in Italy

Betti, Eloisa

Central European University Press

12/2022

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Inglês

9789633864371

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Acknowledgments and Note to the English Edition


Introduction

I. Labor precarity as a historical phenomenon

II. Historicizing precarious work in the Italian Republic

III. Precarious workers: A readers' guide


Chapter 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 Fua-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


Chapter 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 Legislation on "particular labor relationships" during the boom years

2.2.1 Home-based industrial work

2.2.2 Sub-contracted work

2.2.3 The fixed-term contract


2.3 New regulations on dismissals in the nineteen-sixties

2.3.1 Dismissal for marriage

2.3.2 Individual dismissals


Chapter 3. Stability or Precarity: The Two Faces of 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 home-based industrial work 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 The 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 woman question

3.3.2 Precarity and the 1977 movement

3.3.3 Intellectual precarity between schools and universities


Chapter 4. The Myth of Flexibility during the Roaring Eighties

4.1 The flexibility paradigm in economic-sociological thinking

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 shade 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 the trade-union debate and collective agreements of the eighties


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


Chapter 5. The New Explosion of Precarious Work Between the Nineties and the Aughts

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 Precariat (2006) and the missed reform of the Prodi government

5.1.5 The "Statute of Works": From the idea to the bill (1997-2006)


5.2 Precarious subjectivity and new forms of self-organization in the aughts

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 subjectivities in the new millennium


5.3 Precarity between artistic-cultural portrayals and political-trade union reflections

5.3.1 The culture of precarity

5.3.2 From invisible to social emergency: The precarians in the public debate

5.3.3 Representing the precarians: The birth and development of atypical workers' trade unions


Chapter 6. The Normalization of Precarity during the Years of Global Crisis

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: The public debate and the labor market

6.1.3 Italy seen from abroad: Precarity and emigration


6.2 Precarity and legislative reform during the crisis years: An assessment

6.2.1 The Fornero Law (2012)

6.2.2 The Jobs Act (2014)

6.2.3 The debate on the reform of 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 illegal labor brokerage

6.3.3 Precarity and research: The mobilization of the universities

6.3.4 Beyond precarity: A charter of universal labor rights?


?Epilogue


References

Index
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precarious work; labor history; social movements; women's history