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Migrant Farmworkers in 'Plastic Factories'. Investigating Work-Life Struggles
No full textThis book provides a fine-grained ethnographic examination of the everyday negotiations and conflicts taking place in greenhouses and packinghouses in an agricultural district in south-eastern Italy (Sicily). In a highly competitive global scenario, driven by multinational corporations and large retailers, small and medium-sized farms largely rely on migrant labour to fill their demand for casualized, flexible and low-paid jobs. By taking the reader into the ‘plastic factories’ where the author was hired as a farmworker, this book sheds light on the struggles – around the employment contract, the wage and the body – which take place every day between employers and employees. The book contributes to broadening the understanding of the dynamics innervating food production worldwide by recognizing the pivotal role of migrant labour not only as a factor in the restructuring of global supply chains, but also as an actor shaping these processes through its own unpredictable strategies
Recensione al volume di M. Colucci, Storia dell'immigrazione straniera in Italia. Dal 1945 ai nostri giorni, Roma, Carocci, 2018
No full textFrom homework to remote work. Reflecting on the porosity of spaces, times and social relationships at home and in workplaces
No full textThe article aims to contextualise the phenomenon of remote work in the preand
post-pandemic times. Before the Covid-19 pandemic, working from home
was diffused among specific occupational groups, such as manufacturing homeworkers,
lawyers, doctors, and, since the mid-1980s, with the implementation
of new technologies, an increasing share of white collar and knowledge workers.
During the pandemic, the number of remote workers massively escalated
worldwide. Although this increase was largely unexpected, the introduction of
remote work found fertile ground following several long-term transformations
impacting the labour market and productive processes, above all the digitalization,
labour flexibilization, and tertiarization of the economy. The paper
summarises the ongoing academic debate on remote work, which has mainly
focused on the reconfiguration of spaces, times, and social relationships both
at work and in the domestic sphere. Finally, by introducing the three papers
collected in this monographic section, it discusses ongoing and future trends in
remote work, investigating workers’, companies’, and trade unions’ perspectives
Politiche migratorie e disfunzioni funzionali. Il caso della legge Martelli
No full textThe article focuses on the social context and the parliamentary debate that anticipated the promulgation of the Martelli Law (d.l. 416 of the 1989, transformed into L. in 1990), in order to analyze the Law’s main innovations and their ratios. The paper aims at shedding light on the implications and connections between the «founding period» of immigration law in Italy and the policies developed in the following years. In particular, the article focuses on the managing of migrant labor on the Italian territory through a set of dysfunctions which are actually functional to the Italian socio-economic context
A trent'anni dalla legge Martelli, in "1989-90: la storia dell’immigrazione straniera in Italia a un punto di svolta"
No full textNei primi mesi del 2020, mentre questo articolo viene pubblicato, compie trent’anni la legge Martelli, uno dei primi tentativi di riorganizzare la disciplina giuridica in tema di immigrazione in Italia. Qual è il senso, a distanza di trent’anni, di parlare della legge – e, più in generale, del periodo tra il 1989 e il 1991, che ha preceduto e seguito la sua promulgazione? La rilevanza della La legge Martelli per la comprensione delle successive politiche migratorie in Italia risiede nel fatto che quest’ultima, per certi versi ancora «ingenua», per altri aspetti anticipa quegli elementi di ineffettività che caratterizzeranno la disciplina migratoria italiana da lì in avanti e che permangono tutt’ora, producendo quelle disfunzioni di fatto funzionali al mercato del lavoro
What is deemed to be "fake"? The case of "fake agricultural workers" in South Eastern Sicily
No full textNel corso dell'articolo, l'autrice affronta il tema dell'economia morale nel mercato del lavoro informale, concentrandosi sul settore serricolo in provincia di Ragusa (Sicilia). L'esperienza etnografica da osservatrice partecipante in uno dei distretti più produttivi dell'agricoltura meridionale, ha aiutato a ricostruire le interazioni che emergono tra lo Stato, gli imprenditori e i lavoratori italiani e migranti, imbrigliati in questo sistema di produzione semi-informale. Il caso dei "falsi braccianti", ovvero di persone ingaggiate in maniera fittizia al fine di ricevere il sussidio di disoccupazione agricola, rappresenta un esempio interessante, poiché consente di indagare alcune categorie, di tipo sia cognitivo che normativo, che costituiscono "l'ordine morale" del mercato del lavoro agricolo locale. L'autrice, dunque, attraverso diversi esempi empirici, cerca di rispondere ad alcune domande rilevanti, come ad esempio cosa è ritenuto "legittimo" o "illegittimo" nell'ambito economico, cosa è costruito come "conveniente" o "valido", e in che modo l'etnicità gioca un ruolo nel definire le strategie d'azione più "appropriate".Throughout this article, the author deals with the topic of the moral economy of the informal labor market, focusing on the greenhouses' sector in the province of Ragusa (Sicily). The ethnographic experience as a participant observer in one of the richest districts of South Italian agriculture, helped to reconstruct the interplay emerging between the State, the entrepreneurs and the Italian and migrants laborers, harnessed in this quasi-informal system of production. The case of "fake agricultural workers", namely of people fictitiously hired in agriculture in order to receive the unemployment subsidy, represents an interesting example, since it allowed to scrutinize some of the categories, both cognitive and normative, that constitute the "moral order" of the agricultural local labor market. The author, thus, through several empirical examples, tried to rep to some relevant questions, like what is deem to be "legitimate" or "illegitimate" in the economic realm, what is constructed as "convenient" or "valuable" and how does ethnicity play a role in defining the "appropriateness" of individuals’ coping strategies
Migrant Workers’ Representation and the Appeal of Independent Grassroots Unionism. Insights from Britain and Italy.
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Fiducia, onestà, incertezza. Convenzioni e relazioni sociali nel lavoro quotidiano degli intermediari nel mercato ortofrutticolo di Vittoria / Trust, Honesty, Uncertainty. Conventions and Social Relations in Brokers' Daily Labour in the Fruit and Vegetable Market in Vittoria (Sicily)
No full textThe article aims at understanding the set of meanings, norms,
values and ties affecting the everyday work of different types of
brokers employed within a fruit and vegetable market. The case study
is represented by a market located in Vittoria, the centre of the socalled Transformed Littoral Strip, in South-Eastern Sicily. The local
agricultural district hosts several workplaces devoted to the production
and distribution of crops: seeds companies, nurseries, greenhouses,
packinghouses, and fruit and veg markets. The latter represents the field
of our ethnographic investigation that relied, in particular, on the technique
of shadowing, and on around 50 in-depth interviews. The article deals
with the everyday life of several actors (producers, agents and dealers)
and investigates their negotiations, their worries, their ties. In particular,
the contribution scrutinizes which behaviours are deemed legitimate and
which are stigmatized within the social space of the market, in order to
draw a picture of the moral economy and of the conventions circulating
in this setting. Through a number of ethnographic examples, the article
describes how the economic-regulative sphere is actually connected and
mutually constitutive with the moral-evaluative one
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