Chapter 1. Ethnography in a Global Enterprise
Chapter 2. Anthropology of Enterprise and Globalised Work: The Case of Lamborghini
Chapter 3. Entwining Germany, Abruzzo and Emilia: CFK Department for Producing the Carbon Monocoque
Chapter 4. ‘We Don’t Sell Cars, We Sell Dreams’: Assembly, Quality, Product
Chapter 5. The Emilian Way to Participation: German-Style Industrial Relations
Chapter 6. Labour and Participation from the Global Dimension to the Local Level: ‘White-Collar’ Perspectives

Conclusions: Scaling Globalisation: Participation, Implementation and the Green Turn

References
Index

Participating in the Global Enterprise

Anthropological Research at Automobili Lamborghini

Fulvia D'Aloisio

370 pages, bibliog., index

ISBN 978-1-80539-979-7 Hb Published (May 2025)

eISBN 978-1-80539-977-3 eBook

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Viewed through an anthropological lens, Automobili Lamborghini, the renowned Italian factory of super cars, presents a compelling case study. As an ethnography spanning three years, the book focuses on the different perspectives of the managers and the workers and the effects of the organization on their lives. It highlights the increasing value of Automobili Lamborghini for the VW Group globally and analyzes the organizational structure and the industrial relations (IR) system, the so-called Mitbestimmung (co-determination), which represents an interesting and original amalgamation between the German model of IR and the Italian tradition of both managerial and trade-union action and behaviour.

Fulvia D'Aloisio is Professor of Cultural Anthropology at the University of Campania 'Luigi Vanvitelli'. Her publications include Facing the Crisis: Ethnographies of Work in Italian Industrial Capitalism edited with Simone Ghezzi (Berghahn Books, 2020).

Series: Volume 39, Dislocations

Subject: Political and Economic Anthropology

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LC: HD9710.I84 L36313 2025

berghahn New York · Oxford

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Participating in the Global Enterprise

Anthropological Research at Automobili Lamborghini

Fulvia D'Aloisio

Series: Volume 39, Dislocations

Subject: Political and Economic Anthropology

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Participating in the Global Enterprise

Anthropological Research at Automobili Lamborghini

Fulvia D'Aloisio

Series: Volume 39, Dislocations

Subject: Political and Economic Anthropology

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