List of Figures
Acknowledgments
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 Socio-Economic 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 a Marche 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 Between Two Generations of Metalworkers 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 Industry and Economy: The Perverse Role of Precarity
Andrea Fumagalli
Afterword
Don Kalb
Index
