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Ten Years of Changes in the World of Work
In the last decade the Italian labor market has gone through substantial transformations, from the structure of employment, to the professional composition of the population, to the living conditions of workers, have been determined by the intersection of cyclical and structural factors: the great economic crisis, the gradual shift of production towards services, and long-term socio-demographic trends. In ...
Why We Should Go Back to Reading Marx
One of the new elements of neoliberalism is the possibility of capitalist accumulation that segments and divides the world of labor, rather than making it homogenous. Yet reunification of labor, that leads to collective awareness by workers to produce common struggles for the defense of their rights, is extremely complicated. To overcome the current crisis a new model of development is needed, that ...
Aggregate Demand is the Italian Problem
Between 1992 and 2018, the Italian economy saw a worrying slowdown of growth of aggregate demand, due above all to the significant contraction of private and public consumption. In the same period, Italy has been among the European countries that have made the greatest effort to reduce protections for insecure workers, leading to an exponential increase of workers with fixed-term contracts.#From a ...
The Strength of the Example of the Italian Manufacturing System
During the course of 2020-2021, the Italian production system, thanks to the dynamism of single businesses or through the creation of networks, proved to be resilient and able to rapidly recover from the drops in production suffered in the initial period of the pandemic. In the months of the lockdown, various businesses launched new product lines (personal protective equipment, medical devices, air ...
Goodbye Workers?
This dossier is dedicated to work, and more specifically to workers in businesses and organizations in a broad sense. “Workers” is an almost outdated term that, similar to what happened with “laborers,” is now disappearing from the managerial vocabulary. In its place people speak of “human resources” and “human capital,” and no longer of “employees” but “associates.” Yet we ...