Overview

Among the founding nations of the European Union, no nation has experienced a more devastating affect from the 2008 economic crisis than Italy. Although its recovery has recently begun, Italy has fallen even further behind EU economic leaders and the EU average. Looking at how and why this happened, Facing the Crisis brings together ethnographic material from anthropological research projects carried out in various Italian industrial locations. With its wide breadth of locations and industries, the volume looks at all corners of the diverse Italian manufacturing system.

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Author:   Fulvia D'Aloisio ,  Simone Ghezzi ,  Don Kalb
Publisher:   Berghahn Books
Imprint:   Berghahn Books
Volume:   30
ISBN:  

9781789207804

ISBN 10:   1789207800
Pages:   222
Publication Date:   20 September 2020
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

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

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This is an interesting and timely volume, which describes through well-crafted historical and ethnographic analyses, the current state of the Italian industrial district model in the light of the recent financial crisis and the subsequent economic austerity. * Massimiliano Mollona, Goldsmiths, University of London

This is an interesting and timely volume, which describes through well-crafted historical and ethnographic analyses, the current state of the Italian industrial district model in the light of the recent financial crisis and the subsequent economic austerity. Massimiliano Mollona, Goldsmiths, University of London

Author Information

Fulvia D'Aloisio is Associate Professor of Cultural Anthropology at the University of Campania 'Luigi Vanvitelli'. Her most important publications include Donne in tuta amaranto. Trasformazioni del lavoro e mutamento culturale alla FIAT-SATA di Melfi (Guerini & Associati, 2003) and Vita di fabbrica. Cristina racconta il decollo e la crisi della FIAT-SATA di Melfi (Franco Angeli, 2014).

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