Quanti sono i disoccupati? Misurare il non lavoro in tempo di crisi. Un percorso di analisi dagli anni Trenta a oggi

Abstract

This chapter seeks to explore the complex interaction between statistical devices, socio-economic processes and political practice with reference to the problem of unemployment in twentieth-century Italy, comparing three moments of economic crisis in which the lack of work assumed particular relevance in the public debate and in the life of workers (the 1930s, the 1970s and the last recession that began in 2007), focusing on the problems related to the measurement of work and non-work.