Capital and Labor Under Fascism

Haider, Carmen

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“…David Horn (1994) has lucidly illustrated how the relationship between workers and the state was predicated on a social agreement, not a direct means for indemnification; rather, “the state intervened in the arena of work accidents in order to defend and strengthen the social organism” (Horn 1994:40). The Fascist notion of the nation was premised on its overall productivity and the robust bodies of men as worker–citizens who toiled as their “social duty” (Haider 1968:269). Notably, the Fascist state also created the National Fascist Institute for Insurance against Work‐Related Accidents (Istituto Nazionale Fascista per l’Assicurazione contro gli Infortuni sul Lavoro [INFAIL]) in 1933 (Willson 1985:241).…”

Section: State Apparatuses For Occupational Healthmentioning

confidence: 99%

Living it on the skin: Italian states, working illness

Molé

2008

American Ethnologist

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In this article, I examine the codification of an Italian work‐related illness caused by mobbing, a type of psychological harassment that emerged at the moment neoliberal policies transformed Italy's historically protectionist labor market. I trace how the medicalization of mobbing has expanded workers’ access to compensation, resources, and discursive tools for criticizing neoliberal labor conditions, even as it has produced new structures of surveillance. I unravel the neoliberal politics of a state that protects workers’ health yet governs worker–citizens through an apparatus of medical experts. I find that workers’ labor problems are experienced and managed as bodily problems in ways important to remaking Italian citizenship. [neoliberalism, state, labor, biopolitics, citizenship, bodies, Italy]

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Section: State Apparatuses For Occupational Healthmentioning

confidence: 99%