1 May Labour Day (2000)
In Europe, governments and politicians are still showing second thoughts and uncertainties linked to the old industrial world and its bureaucratic and trade union structures. The reality of the labour market is moving towards flexible forms of work in terms of working hours, time, pay rates, and contractual obligations. It is more than ever necessary for the trade unions to be attentive, but they must profoundly change their ways of thinking because if they do not grasp the sense of the profound transformation that the world of work is undergoing, they risk, to defend outdated positions of power, closing in on anti-historical barriers.
Eurispes’ contribution to the debate on the state of the world of work at the beginning of the millennium starts with some reflections, in no particular order, on unemployment, labour supply and demand, labour relations, undeclared work, young people, women, training, security and new working frontiers.
Index
Chapter 1. Unemployment
Unemployment trends and rates in Italy
Institutional and alternative proposals: the 35 hours, the minimum subsistence, the citizenship income
Amsterdam, Naples, Rome: the unemployed people’s movement
The Europe of double-digit unemployment
Employment policies: European directives and employment plans
Chapter 2. Job advertisements, those who seek, they find…maybe not
The supply
The demand
Supply and demand
Labour supply and demand: a difficult matching
Chapter 3. Atypical work: between opportunity and need
Job sharing: a new frontier
Temporary work
Chapter 4. Undeclared work
The situation in Italy
Illegal and child labour
Chapter 5. Youth entrepreneurship: an opportunity to be protagonists in the world of work
Facilitated financing for youth entrepreneurship
The Results of Facilitated Youth Entrepreneurship
Prospects and ideas for the future
Youth Entrepreneurship: an opportunity to be taken
Chapter 6. Gender Gap: Male and Female Employment
Employment disparities
Signs of change
Chapter 7. Training: between employment, motivation and quality of work
The organisation of vocational training in Italy
Chapter 8. Safety at work
Chapter 9. The future of employment and the occupations of the future
An emerging sector: the Net-job