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Book Synopsis 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.
Trade Review “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
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
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