Conference paper
Labour Market, Class Structure and Regional Formations in Italy
Arnaldo Bagnasco
Abstract
The paper concerns a line of research which starting from the analysis of the labour market, has suggested some hypotheses about the regional complexity of social and class structure in Italy. From the analysis of different sections of the labour market, attention is shifted to the importance of the traditional light industry and to the transfer of individual processes from larger to smaller enterprises after the »hot autumn« of 1969. The localisation of light industry in a large area of central and north-eastern Italy, of the large-scale industry in north-west, and of underdevelopment processes in the South, suggest the hypotheses of a three-dimensional model of Italian society, which substitutes the older north-south dichotomy. From a theoretical point of view, the concept of »regional formation« is used to show that regional differentiation is an important organizational level of modern capitalism.
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Hrčak ID:
156038
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Publication date:
31.12.1979.
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