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Work Hard and Have Fun … in an Amazon Warehouse
Inside Amazon warehouses, technological progress, and the managerial techniques related to it, aim to track every movement of workers, measuring and regulating all of their movements. The growing preponderance of digital mechanisms that are nourished by workers means that the warehouse desires not only work, but also data. The software systems underlying inventory and order fulfillment must continuously ...
Work and Institutions in the Global Fast Fashion Market
Economic globalization and the vigorous managerial efforts to minimize labor costs in the fast fashion sector have had the consequence of devaluing the work of employees, standardizing their duties, and gradually reducing investments in training. A comparative analysis between the United States and Italy has shown that, despite the greater regulatory safeguards present in our country, the levels of ...
The Entirely Italian “Poverty Regime”
Premise: how do we measure poverty? What poverty is and how it can be measured is the subject of many theoretical and methodological debates that do not provide, nor could they provide, a single answer. It is not just a matter of choosing between a multidimensional or a unidimensional conception of poverty, and therefore which indicators to use (only economic or also human and social capital, ...
Youth and Work: A Crucial Issue
Why talk about youth and poverty today? Because in our country, young people, even when employed, are increasingly exposed to this risk: according to the latest ISTAT data, referring to 2021, the incidence of absolute poverty is 14.2 percent for minors, 11.1 percent for young people between eighteen and thirty-four years old, 9.1 percent for adults between thirty-five and sixty-four years old, and ...