This dissertation, based on fourteen months of fieldwork from 2003-2004, reveals the cultural co-production of gender, work and capitalist practices in one of Italy's economic strongholds, the northern city of Padua. The study traces and conceptualizes the emergence, institutionalization and charged circulation of "mobbing" across varied field sites: corporations, mobbing clinics and state public health institutions. On one level, mobbing refers to a set of vexing practices that isolate, degrade and humiliate a worker to the point of his or her resignation. However, I consider mobbing a deeply gendered cultural discourse about the intensified precariousness of labor that shapes and reflects the desires and subjectivities of Italians during ...
This dissertation analyzes how the implementation of the European Union Waste Directives is shaping ...
“Italy is a democratic republic founded on work”: article 1 of the Italian Constitution (1948) mirro...
One of the characteristics of the Italian peninsula is a sharp North-South gradient on many economic...
none1noThis article investigates the historical relationship between gender and precarious labor by...
This dissertation examines the cultural politics of family-making in Italy, where women in the 1990s...
In the past decades Italy has been crossed by several mobilizations against insecure and precarious ...
Drawing on the history of the feminist movement and the contemporary Italian debate, this chapter re...
This paper notes the tendency of 'social movement unionism' scholarship on both sides of the Atlanti...
This contribution is focused on collective and individual stories of precarity in Italy. At the pres...
none1noThis chapter uses the concept of “precariousness” to take a look at women’s working condition...
The thesis investigates the reasons that led to a continuation and furthering of neoliberal policy-m...
Gender inequality in the labour market has in Italy a structural character. Women's employment never...
The paper analyses the intersection of public policies, informal arrangements of income provisioning...
"Workers and Capital is universally recognised as the most important work produced by operaismo, a c...
This article explores the transnational, national and local origins and contexts of the Wages for Ho...
This dissertation analyzes how the implementation of the European Union Waste Directives is shaping ...
“Italy is a democratic republic founded on work”: article 1 of the Italian Constitution (1948) mirro...
One of the characteristics of the Italian peninsula is a sharp North-South gradient on many economic...
none1noThis article investigates the historical relationship between gender and precarious labor by...
This dissertation examines the cultural politics of family-making in Italy, where women in the 1990s...
In the past decades Italy has been crossed by several mobilizations against insecure and precarious ...
Drawing on the history of the feminist movement and the contemporary Italian debate, this chapter re...
This paper notes the tendency of 'social movement unionism' scholarship on both sides of the Atlanti...
This contribution is focused on collective and individual stories of precarity in Italy. At the pres...
none1noThis chapter uses the concept of “precariousness” to take a look at women’s working condition...
The thesis investigates the reasons that led to a continuation and furthering of neoliberal policy-m...
Gender inequality in the labour market has in Italy a structural character. Women's employment never...
The paper analyses the intersection of public policies, informal arrangements of income provisioning...
"Workers and Capital is universally recognised as the most important work produced by operaismo, a c...
This article explores the transnational, national and local origins and contexts of the Wages for Ho...
This dissertation analyzes how the implementation of the European Union Waste Directives is shaping ...
“Italy is a democratic republic founded on work”: article 1 of the Italian Constitution (1948) mirro...
One of the characteristics of the Italian peninsula is a sharp North-South gradient on many economic...