The recent vast upsurge in social science scholarship on job precarity has generally little to say about earlier forms of this phenomenon. Eloisa Betti’s monograph convincingly demonstrates on the example of Italy that even in the post-war phase of Keynesian stability and welfare state, precarious labor was an underlying feature of economic development. She examines how in this short period exceptional politics of labor stability prevailed. The volume then presents the processes whereby labor precarity regained momentum— under the name of flexibility— in the post-Fordist phase from the early 1980s, taking on new forms in the Craxi and Berlusconi eras.
Multiple actors are addressed in the analysis. The book gives voice to intellectuals, scholars, politicians and trade unionists as they have framed the concept and debates on precarious work from the 1950s onwards. Views of labor law experts, politicians and public servants are investigated in regard to labor regulations. Positions of the very precarians are explored, ranging from rural women, industrial homeworkers and blue-collar workers to physicians, university researchers and trainees, unveiling the emergence of anti-precarity social movements. The continuous role of women’s associations and feminist groups in opposing labor precarity since the 1950s is prominently exposed.
- Cover
- Title page
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- Bessarabia—A Contested Borderland of the Russian Empire
- Conceptual Framework and Historiographical Overview
- Chronological and Thematic Structure of the Book
- Chapter I. Empire- and Nation-Building in Russia and Romania: Discourses and Practices
- The Russian Empire and the Challenge of Multiethnicity: Managing the Periphery
- Constructing the National Narrative in Romania: Models and Variations
- Russian Imperial Visions and Policies in Bessarabia between the 1860s and World War I
- Chapter II. Southern Bessarabia as an Imperial Borderland: Diplomatic and Political Dilemmas
- The Russian-Romanian 1878 Controversy: Between Realpolitik and National Dignity
- Southern Bessarabia in Russian Imperial Discourse after 1878: Visions of Otherness and Institutional Transfers
- Chapter III. Rituals of Nation and Empire in Early Twentieth-Century Bessarabia: The Anniversary of 1912 and its Significance
- The 1912 Anniversary and the Early Twentieth-Century Russian Imperial Context
- The 1912 Anniversary and Bessarabia’s Public Sphere Russian-Romanian Symbolic Competition and the “Romanian Response
- Romanian National Discourse on Bessarabia during the 1912 Celebrations
- Chapter IV. Three Hypostases of the “Bessarabian Refugee”: Hasdeu, Stere, Moruzi, and the Uncertainty of Identity
- Hasdeu—The Romantic Nationalist
- Moruzi—The Uprooted Traditionalist
- Stere—The Legal Revolutionary
- Chapter V. Revolution, War, and the “Bessarabian Question”: Russian and Romanian Perspectives (1905–16)
- Bessarabia as a Contested Borderland during Revolution and War (1905–15)
- The Wartime “Nationalization” of the Russian Empire and its Significance
- The Controversy over the “Bessarabian Question” in the Romanian Kingdom (1914–16)
- Conclusion
- Instead of an Epilogue: Autonomy, Federalism, or National Unification (1917–18)?
- Bibliography
- Index
- Photo gallery
- Back cover
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