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List of Figures
Acknowledgements
Introduction: The Crisis in Italy: Anthropological Insights on Changes of Work, Enterprise and Life Horizons
Fulvia D’Aloisio and Simone Ghezzi
Chapter 1. Breaking the Chain, Mending the Chain: A Decade of Socioeconomic Transformation in the Jewelry District of Valenza, Italy
Michele Filippo Fontefrancesco
Chapter 2. Crisis of Production and Crisis of Reproduction: The Disappearance of Woodcarvers in the Furniture-Making District of the Brianza, Lombardy
Simone Ghezzi
Chapter 3. Kin and Economic Crisis in an Italian Shoe District
Michael Blim
Chapter 4. Facing Two Crises. The Disembedding of Society and the Economy in the Furniture-Caravan District, Valdelsa, Tuscany
Francesco Zanotelli
Chapter 5. The Global Enterprise from a Peripheral Perspective: The Crisis and Its Meanings in the Case of FCA-SATA in Melfi, Basilicata
Fulvia D’Aloisio
Chapter 6. Freight Fluxes, Flexibility, and Everyday Tactics: Working in Road-Freight Transport in Italy
Francesco Bogani
Chapter 7. The Structural Crisis of Italian Economy and Industry: The Perverse Role of Precarity
Andrea Fumagalli
Afterword: From the Third Italy to Universal Alienation: Uneven and Combined
Don Kalb
Index
Facing the Crisis
Ethnographies of Work in Italian Industrial Capitalism
Edited by Fulvia D’Aloisio and Simone Ghezzi
Afterword by Don Kalb
222 pages, 19 illus., bibliog., index
ISBN 978-1-78920-780-4 Hb Published (September 2020)
eISBN 978-1-78920-781-1 eBook