Caporalato in Italy between the 1950s and the 1970s. The discovery and the features of a transforming phenomenon
Journal title ITALIA CONTEMPORANEA
Author/s Giovanni Ferrarese
Publishing Year 2024 Issue 2024/306
Language Italian Pages 28 P. 14-41 File size 295 KB
DOI 10.3280/IC2024-306002
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Caporalato (the gangmaster system) is a practice historically rooted in the country’s main agricultural production areas. The caporali have played a functional role in the development of an agricultural labour market. However, dynamics of illicit or illegal labour intermediation, often connected to severe exploitation, have also been observed in the history of shipbuilding, construction, and mining labour. This essay aims to provide, through primary sources and the contemporary press, a first diachronic and comprehensive reading of the evolution of labour intermediation from the immediate post-war period to the 1980s.
Keywords: labour, gangmaster, migration, farmworkers
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Giovanni Ferrarese, Il caporalato in Italia dagli anni Cinquanta agli anni Settanta del Novecento. La scoperta e i caratteri di un fenomeno in mutamento in "ITALIA CONTEMPORANEA" 306/2024, pp 14-41, DOI: 10.3280/IC2024-306002