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An Odd-Jobs Republic. The 2025 Referendum in Italy and the Long Decline of Labour Rights

Italy’s June 2025 referendum aimed to put labour rights and job insecurity back at the centre of political debate. Yet with turnout stuck at just over 30%, it failed to reach the quorum—reflecting decades of reforms that have weakened protections, fragmented careers, and turned flexibility into structural precarity. From the “Treu Package” to the Jobs Act, legislative choices have reshaped the very meaning of work, eroding its social value and excluding many, especially migrants, from full citizenship. Understanding this trend is key to rethinking labour, rights, and belonging in 21st-century Italy.

Quando la “classe” è più cattiva del “maestro”. In morte di Toni Negri

La scomparsa di Antonio “Toni” Negri il 16 Dicembre scorso ha dimostrato, per l’ennesima volta, come il dibattito pubblico e mediatico italiano non riesca a liberarsi da una lettura molto semplificata degli anni Settanta e delle vicende che hanno caratterizzato quel tornante decisivo della storia italiana. Ce ne parlano Jacopo Ciammariconi e Giorgio Del Vecchio

“I certainly wouldn’t call it work anymore” – The Reconfiguration of Work in Italy during the 1970s from a Historical Semantics Perspective

At the end of the 1970s, with the onset of the post-boom crisis, the rejection of regulated labour and the theorisation of its liberation through precarisation and flexi-bilisation became part of a cultural and social semantics for the young gen-eration of workers entering the wage labour system. Their motto was “freeing labour to free life from labour”. Through both a quantitative and quali-tative historical semantic analysis of the sources, this contribution examines the medium- and long-term impacts of this reconfiguration on the practices of regulated and controlled wage labour. It also aims to offer an initial reflection on the use of the historical semantic approach for contemporary history and its possible – or rather, necessary – differentiation from other forms of discourse analysis.

Zivilisations/-prozess in der digitalen Gesellschaft – ein Mini- Symposium

Wie sind der Wandel in Technologie, Gesellschaft und individuellem Habitus miteinander verbunden? Gibt es einen #Zivilisationsprozess zur digitalen Consumer Culture des Social Web und weiter bis zu einem #Metaverse? Der Entwurf einer Perspektive
Am Dienstag 27.09. 2022, 16.00 Uhr – Digital auf Zoom
Mit Impulsbeiträgen von Klaus Janowitz und Massimiliano Livi

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