1,064 research outputs found
Oggetti, prodotti, merci
No full textIl capitolo ripercorre le principali tappe della riflessione antropologica
sulle merci. Le discussioni sulla pertinenza o meno della distinzione
tra dono e merce, tra beni inalienabili e beni alienabili, fanno parte
dei grandi dibattiti dell’antropologia economica. L’analisi si sofferma
sulla produzione, poi sulla circolazione: gli oggetti, muovendosi
e cambiando status, rivelano relazioni sociali, rapporti di potere. Il caso
di studio centrale in questo capitolo, che permette di connettere
produzione, circolazione e consumo, è costituito dalle merci del made
in Italy. Seguendo le sorti dei brands destinati ai mercati occidentali,
Redini ripercorre le connessioni tra Italia e paesi dell’Europa dell’Est,
ricostruendo le “catene del valore globale”
Making Things Beautiful and Doing them the Italian Way : Discourses around Aesthetics, Labour Discipline, and Value in Global Production
No full textThis article focuses on the way in which the narratives around beauty are used in the regulation of labour relationships in some of the Italian manufacturing companies (clothing and footwear) producing abroad. Drawing on a long-term ethnography on the delocalisation of Italian companies to Romania (Redini, 2020) and utilizing interviews with Italians entrepreneurs, it attemps to show how the rhetorics around an aesthetics of living, working and producing in the 'Italian way' allows to impose specific working conditions and wages on Romanian workers. The concept of beauty to which the informants refer recalls an essentialised idea of territory and identity and is strongly politically connoted. On the one hand, it is substantiated by the culture of making things beautiful and doing them well associated with Italian manufacturing and artistic production, and on the other it refers to the role assumed by Italian capital in the political-economic transition of Romania
Made in... where? Territori e identità nei processi di valorizzazione delle merci
No full textThe political-economic approaches to global trade flows known as global value chains and global production networks offer powerful insights into the coordination and location of globally stretched supply chains. However, social conflicts and negotiations through which they articulate at local level the value chains, often remain unexplored. Focusing on production delocalization from Italy to Romania and Moldova and on plants in Tuscany of luxury global firms, the aim of this paper is to analyse this dimension and in particular spatial and identitary processes of construction of the value of the commodities and its impact on labor conditions
“Un nuovo tipo umano”. Per un’antropologia del lavoro industriale a partire da "Americanismo e Fordismo"
No full textThis article aims to show the relevance of Gramsci’s reflections presented in “Americanism and Fordism” in ethnographic practice and the anthropological analysis of contemporary industrial work. Starting from research on working conditions in Romania, the author analyzes work discipline and the discipline of sexual life, showing how capitalism proceeds at the level of the relationship between capital and labour and between the sphere of production and reproduction
Commodity Fetishism Again. Labour, Subjectivity and Commodities in “Supply Chains Capitalism”
No full textThe aim of this essay is to reconnect Marx’s analysis of commodity fetishism and the use that he makes of this anthropological category with a general critique of global capitalist relationships. Based on Marx's anthropological insights into the concept of fetishism, it explores the political relationship between labour, subjectivity and commodities in supply chains capitalism. For this purpose, it empirically examines the materials of ethnographic research on the production of Italian companies that produce in an Eastern European country (Romania) and then sell mainly to countries in Western Europe. In this way, the spatial separation between the places where the investments are made (production) and those where profits are generated (market) becomes very clearcut, just like the alienating division between people and the products of their work. In the light of the Marxian analysis of the commodity form, this detachment will be analysed in a fragment of the productive, organisational and social mosaic of contemporary capitalism
Sentimenti al lavoro. Politiche di welfare e affettività
No full textIl capitolo analizza in una prospettiva antropologica il settore del lavoro domestico in cui si concentrano le lavoratrici moldave. L’obiettivo è di mostrare come il tema della salute occupazionale delle migranti debba essere inserito in un quadro analitico che tiene conto dei mutamenti di natura demografica e del mercato del lavoro, delle forme molteplici e disperse assunte dalla famiglia, delle caratteristiche dei servizi socio sanitari e delle richieste a questi rivolte dai cittadini. È infatti nello scenario tratteggiato da questo insieme di fattori che si giustifica una specifica sentimentalizzazione delle relazioni di cura che arriva ad incidere pesantemente sullo stato di salute delle lavoratrici migranti
Working on Margins : an Anthropological Analysis of the Italian Supply Chains in two Eastern European Countries = Travailler sur les marges : Une analyse anthropologique des chaînes d’approvisionnement italiennes dans deux pays est‐européens
No full textBy diversifying working methods and conditions, outsourcing on a world scale has led to new production of geographies, complicating the idea of a strictly limited economic area. Based on ethnographic research on Italian firms’ supply chains in Romania and Moldova, the purpose of this article is to show the formation of marginal figures of the European and non-European labour market. In highlighting the strategic role of borders, I seek to anthropologically deconstruct the concept of the division of labour, showing the strategies of multiplication and diversification of work processes in the global production network.
These processes contain programmes, institutions and economic development practices analysed here as classifications that produce representation and finally the presence of low-cost labour
Fabule e Trame. Una prospettiva etnografica su lavoro e movimento nella produzione globale
No full textCon il contributo dei materiali di un’etnografia condotta in Moldova, lo scopo di questo articolo è di esaminare criticamente alcune delle nozioni più utilizzate nell’analisi del lavoro nella produzione globale. Attraverso le testimonianze di subappaltatori e lavoratori si mostrerà come le categorie di global value chains e global production networks rivelano un approccio che penalizza la dimensione sociale del lavoro “cartografando” la produzione e i contesti in cui essa prende forma. Per esaminare la distribuzione e la continua ristrutturazione delle reti globali di fornitura questo articolo adotta invece come lente analitica la mobilità dei lavoratori. La categoria di supply chains capitalism risulta in questo senso particolarmente preziosa perché più attenta a considerare la strategica combinazione di elementi sociali, economici e politici nella messa al lavoro della vita
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