Turin Today: Premodern society or postindustrial bazaar?

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At a time when unemployment is a key political issue, but is still generally presented in aggregate quantitative terms (regional or national), it is important to analyse the impact of the crisis in its qualitative and sectoral dimensions—in the workings of the labour market itself. This may be better approached in a comparative perspective. This article looks at the current transformation of the labour market and class composition in a major European industrial centre—Turin, the classic industrial city for Gramsci and the centre of industrial growth in Italy throughout the postwar period. What has changed in social terms? What do these changes mean for the notion of a homogeneous ‘industrial working class’? It is hoped that this type of exploratory study will provoke parallel studies for the UK and elsewhere.

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