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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 ...
Disadvantaged Stories as Inheritance
The scenario Poverty in Italy today remains at historic highs, in continuity with the year of the pandemic that in just twelve months increased the number of poor people by one million (Figure 1). It is a phenomenon that can now be considered structural in our country, as it affects 9.4 percent of the population; almost one resident out of ten lives in a condition of absolute poverty. If we consider ...
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, ...
Educational Poverty Requires Strong Choices
Recent research by Save the Children, according to OECD analysis, reports two closely related and worrying facts: the first highlights that Italy's investment in education, instruction, and poverty protection for families is among the lowest in Europe; the second shows that in our country, absolute poverty, correlated with educational poverty, has increased by ten percentage points in ten years.[1] ...
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 ...