Index:

Association "Amici di Piazza Grande", Introduction

Bruno Pizzica, Maria Assunta Serenari , Introduction

Flavia Franzoni , Foreword

Paolo Zurla , Studying an associative experience of homeless: dilemmas, tools and context

(The "dilemmas" of the in-depth study ; Informative objectives and research tools; The research methodology; The Bologna context: a laboratory of welfare policies and a place of emergence of metropolitan problems)

Maria Teresa Tagliaventi , The experience of Piazza Grande (1993-1998): from the street paper to the Co-operative

(A "moving" idea; The Association "Amici di Piazza Grande"; Between Association and Co-operative)

Alessandro Martelli , The activities of the group "Piazza Grande"

(Mutual Aid; The Mobile Support Service; The Night Shelter and the Protected Portico; Temporary lodging; Publishing and awareness-raising initiatives; The activities of the laboratories; Street Jazz: a project for self-employment in the area of music and entertainment)

Maria Teresa Tagliaventi , From the street to the "Piazza": identities at stake

(From the hobo to the homeless; The street, the square and other places; Identity and belonging)

Alessandro Martelli , Between work and social action

(Economy and work in a social perspective; The "social" work of Piazza Grande; Working processes between social reinstatement and development of competence)

Pina Lalli , The experience of an active minority: cultural and communicative aspects

(The interpretative framework; "The voice of the vagrant"; Diffusion: works in progress)

Andrea Lassandari , The "work" of Piazza Grande: problems of juridical qualification

(The approach taken; Piazza Grande's activities; For a hypothesis of juridical qualification: preliminary data; The comparison with the concept of subordination; Voluntary work performances; The mutual element)

Claudio Travaglini , Synergies and potentialities between social and labour policies: economic and business perspective

(The formal characters of the company and the non profit group Piazza Grande; The evolution of the group from the regularisation of the relations within the Association to the creation of the Co-operative; The economic framework: support, commitment and self-management; Co-operative, Association and "law visibility"; The entrepreneurial value, the economic and business interpretation of the experience and the conditions for development)

Serie: Sociologia del lavoro

Subjects: Disabilities, Rehabilitation

Level: Scholarly Research