Journal title SOCIOLOGIA DEL LAVORO
Author/s Emanuele Leonardi
Publishing Year 2023 Issue 2023/165
Language Italian Pages 23 P. 155-177 File size 282 KB
DOI 10.3280/SL2023-165008
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The article explores the contradictory relationship between workers’ experience of ecology and working-class environmentalism in the case study of Italsider/(ex)Ilva in Taranto (Apulia, Italy), on the methodological basis of social ethnography. The main thesis is that a new – qualitative and historically solid – analysis of such, complex relationship makes it possible on the one hand to deconstruct the seemingly natural opposition between employment and health, and on the other hand to open up unprecedented scenarios for the development of a different labor-based perspective on the ecological crisis. The structure of the article is as follows: the first paragraph situates the research from a theoretical point of view, against the background of an emerging field of investigation: environmental labor studies (§1). The second makes its methodology explicit (§2). The following ones examine two phases of Taranto’s industrial, steel-based development – the public management (§3) and the private one, during which the eco-sanitary crisis deflagrates (§4) – in an attempt to articulate the elusive and non-linear relationship between workers’ experience of ecology and working-class environmentalism – until the agreement with Arcelor Mittal in September 2018, starting from which a largely different story opens up. Such story is briefly referred to in the conclusions, recalling more recent events and sketching possible lines of future research.
Keywords: Environmental Labour Studies; Labour-based Experience of Ecology; Social Unionism; Working-Class Environmentalism
Emanuele Leonardi, Esperienza operaia dell’ecologia e ambientalismo del lavoro all’Italsider/Ilva di Taranto. Dagli anni Cinquanta al 2018 in "SOCIOLOGIA DEL LAVORO " 165/2023, pp 155-177, DOI: 10.3280/SL2023-165008