Facing the Crisis

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).Simone Ghezzi is Associate Professor of Economic Anthropology at the University of Milano-Bicocca. He is the author of Etnografia storica dell'imprenditorialita in Brianza (Franco Angeli, 2007), and recently co-authored with Fulvia D'Aloisio Antropologia della crisi. Prospettive etnografiche sulle trasformazioni del lavoro e dell'impresa in Italia (L'Harmattan Italia, 2016).

• List of FiguresAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: The crisis in Italy: Anthropological Insights on Changes of Work, Enterprise and Life HorizonsFulvia D'Aloisio and Simone GhezziChapter 1. Breaking the Chain, Mending the Chain: A Decade of Socio-Economic Transformation in the Jewelry District of Valenza, ItalyMichele Filippo FontefrancescoChapter 2. Crisis of Production and Crisis of Reproduction. The disappearance of woodcarvers in the furniture making district of the Brianza (Lombardy)Simone GhezziChapter 3. Kin and Economic Crisis in a Marche Shoe DistrictMichael BlimChapter 4. Facing Two Crises. The Disembedding of Society and the Economy in the Furniture-Caravan District (Valdelsa, Tuscany)Francesco ZanotelliChapter 5. The Global Enterprise from a Peripheral Perspective. The Crisis and its Meanings Between Two Generations of Metalworkers in the Case of FCA-SATA in Melfi (Basilicata)Fulvia D'AloisioChapter 6. Freight Fluxes, Flexibility, and Everyday Tactics: Working in Road-Freight Transport in ItalyFrancesco BoganiChapter 7. The Structural Crisis of Italian Industry and Economy: The Perverse Role of PrecarityAndrea FumagalliAfterwordDon KalbIndex

"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