Labor Exploitation, Rights, and Health in Contemporary Society
Welfare & Ergonomia Issue 1/2024
edited by Marco Omizzolo
The monographic issue of the journal Welfare & Ergonomia 1/2024 dedicated to “Labor Exploitation, Rights, and Health in Contemporary Society” (Franco Angeli) offers reflections on the labor market and its evolution in contemporary forms of exploitation and marginalization.
The 10 contributions presented allow this phenomenon to be framed in terms of a restructuring of Western society itself, of the social pact that constitutes and shapes it, and of the specific type of capitalism that organizes it. As the volume editor, Marco Omizzolo, emphasizes, labor exploitation can no longer be considered exceptional, “that is, as a malfunction of a labor market that actually works. No, on the contrary, all analyses that encompass different sectors of the labor market, from logistics to agricultural work to domestic care work, reflectโalso through life storiesโon working conditions systematically based on marginality, vulnerability, and exploitation, which also embrace a dramatically growing number of people, workers, both quantitatively speaking.”
How to cite
Marco Omizzolo (ed.), 2024. “WELFARE E ERGONOMIA” 1/2024, Milan: Franco Angeli, DOI: 10.3280/WE2024-001003
Below are the LONG ABSTRACTS in English of the articles. The complete journal is available for purchase on the Franco Angeli publisher’s website.
- Federica Cabras, Luigi di Cataldo, Monica Massari Migrant Bodies at Work. Exploitative practices and (in)visibilization processes from the Sicilian countryside to digital platforms
- Fabio Berti, Giulia Mascagni, “You have to be careful when working”. Exploitation, health and access to healthcare for foreign workers in agriculture
- Ottavia Salvador, “We hurt all over”. An experience of trade union struggle and workers inquiry for risk and harm prevention in the workplace
- Emilio Gardini, Struggle and self-organization. Class formation and mobilizations in the logistics industry
- Chiara Davoli, Exploiting within the rules. Outsourcing in agriculture and socio-educational services
- Isabella Corvino, Claudia Petrescu, Pina Sodano, Dual mastering and labour exploitation: life and work stories of Romanian women in home care in Italy from Romania
- Rafaela da Conceiรงรฃo Hilario Pascoal, Francesca Cimino, The relevance of multi-level governance on contrasting the social inequity health determinants of exploited migrant workers: A comparison between the Project P.I.U. Su.Pr.Eme. in the Region of Sicily and the Project Common Ground in the Veneto Region
- Sara Korbi, Digitalization and migrations: IT platforms and agricultural work
- Fiammetta Fanizza, Fiorella Spallone, The definition of welfare space in the project redevelopment of Borgo Mezzanotte
- Stefania Peca, Pierluigi Musarรฒ, Sowing exploitation reap campaigns, of awareness. The role of diasporas in countering labor exploitation.
Open Section
- Valentino Santoni, Networks for occupational welfare: mapping Italians’ experiences
- Chiara Verga, Cancer and Big Data: Empirical Approaches and Field Research for Effective Prevention
- Elia Pizzolitto, Roberto Veraldi, Inequalities, Covid-19, And Healthcare Access In Urban And Suburban Areas: An Initial Review
The complete journal is available on the Franco Angeli website.
This monographic issue also marked an important transition in the life of the journal Welfare & Ergonomia, whose editorship passed from founder Antonella Ciocia to Pietro Demurtas and Anna Milione (CNR-IRPPS), who will continue to share it with Mara Tognetti (Catholic University of Milan), and which became part of the editorial projects funded by CNR-DSU. These developments were presented on September 27, 2024, at the CNR’s Aula Marconi.
