1st Edition
Precarious Workers History of Debates, Political Mobilization, and Labor Reforms in Italy
By Eloisa Betti
Copyright 2023
268 Pages
by
Central European University Press
The recent vast upsurge in social science scholarship on job precarity has generally little to say about earlier forms of this phenomenon. Eloisa Betti’s monograph convincingly demonstrates on the example of Italy that even in the post-war phase of Keynesian stability and welfare state, precarious labor was an underlying feature of economic development. She examines how in this short period... Read more
Acknowledgments and Note to the English Edition, Introduction, Chapter 1. The Other Face of the Boom: The Discovery of Precarity, Chapter 2. The Construction of Stable Work Between Parliament and Labor Law, Chapter 3. Stability or Precarity: The Two Faces of the Long Seventies, Chapter 4. The Myth of Flexibility during the Roaring Eighties, CHAPTER 5. THE NEW EXPLOSION OF PRECARIOUS WORK BETWEEN THE NINETIES AND THE AUGHTS, CHAPTER 6. THE NORMALIZATION OF PRECARITY DURING THE YEARS OF THE GLOBAL CRISIS, Epilogue, References, Index
Biography
Dr. Eloisa Betti is Adjunct Professor of Labor History at the University of Bologna.
