Precarious Workers: History of Debates, Political Mobilization, and Labor Reforms in Italy
Eloisa Betti, "Precarious Workers: History of Debates, Political Mobilization, and Labor Reforms in Italy "
English | ISBN: 9633864372 | 2022 | 268 pages | PDF | 1440 KB
English | ISBN: 9633864372 | 2022 | 268 pages | PDF | 1440 KB
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 exceptional politics of labor stability prevailed. The volume then presents the processes whereby labor precarity regained momentum― under the name of flexibility― in the post-Fordist phase from the early 1980s, taking on new forms in the Craxi and Berlusconi eras.
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