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    L’impatto delle trasformazioni del lavoro sui nuovi professionisti: la cittadinanza a rischio

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    The combination of a segmented and flexible labour market, which inadequately rewards qualified jobs, and a fragmented welfare system, has given rise to an unprecedented risk of instability and poverty for professionals in their early careers. New forms of self-employment have produced a stronger differentiation within the post-industrial middle-class in terms of economic conditions and representation. Due to the process of ‘decomposition of wage-earning society’ described by Castel, the new generation of professionals is undergoing a crisis of social citizenship, conceived as full participation in social life through labour market inclusion, structured representation of interests, welfare protection and support. The qualitative analysis of interviews with 72 professionals working in different service sectors in Milan allowed to identify three profiles of early-career professionals, showing different level of risk of disaffiliation. New forms of social representation are requested from the part of these professionals claiming universal rights and at the same time dissatisfied with the existent representation supply; other freelancers prefer corporative protection by professional orders or associations, whilst in many cases individualistic behaviour

    Young people in transitions: conditions, indicators and policy implications. To NEET or not to NEET?

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    In this dramatic period of increasing youth unemployment a great attention in the scientific and public debate has been paid to NEET, recommended as a comprehensive concept and indicating an emergent ‘lost generation’. Indeed, youth unemployment and joblessness provoke a scarring effect on long-term wages and careers. But, on the base of Eurostat data analysis and literature review, the use of NEET is criticised, in particular for its consequences on labour policies toward ineffective or even detrimental measures. As a workfare Trojan horse it aims to shift public opinion and policy action towards the consequences of social inequalities more than their causes. Serious problems are entailed by NEET: scarce precision and strong heterogeneity, criminalisation of non-participant youngsters, approximation of the dimensions of social disadvantage, and, paradoxically, the exclusion of temporary workers from the debate on school-work transition. Compared to the traditional indicators, NEET is not able to give original information, instead it tends to conceal different features and dynamics among countries. It is not persuasive to introduce NEET as policy indicator: labour market policies should address social inequalities and promote inclusive and high-quality educational path and employment rather than pushing towards any available training programmes and jobs

    Las madres solas en contextos urbanos europeos. Milán y Berlín : puntos en común y divergencias en los procesos de empobrecimiento

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    La comparación entre madres solas en una ciudad prospera, Milano (Italia), y una ciudad en crisis económica y laboral, Berlin (Alemania), se dirige a descubrir si existe un modelo único de empobrecimiento urbano, o bien si la construcción social de la pobreza tiene características contextuales. El estudio de las trayectorías biográficas de madres solas ha permitido la construcción de trayectorias ideal-típicas de empobrecimiento. Nuestro trabajo de campo muestra como los procesos de empobrecimiento tienden a divergir entre modelos locales. Entre las madres solas encontramos, por una parte, trayectorias de pobreza recurrente en Milano y, por otra, pobreza prolongada en Berlín.The comparison of single mothers in an affluent city, Milan (Italy), and another in economic and employment crisis, Berlin (Germany), aims to verify whether a common pattern of urban impoverishment does exist or poverty has contextual features. The dynamic analysis of biographical trajectories allows for the construction of ideal-typical trajectories of impoverishment. Our fieldwork demonstrates how impoverishment processes tend to diverge between local dynamic models. Among lone mothers we find, on the one hand, recurrent poverty in Milan and, on the other, continuous poverty in Berlin
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