LIBRI DI SILVANA GRECO

I risultati di una ricerca sulla nascita della riflessione sociologica sulla salute in Italia. L’indagine si concentra sul periodo che va dall’inizio degli anni ’70 ai primi anni ’90, anni in cui prende corpo l’obiettivo della Salute per tutti entro l’anno 2000 (WHO, 1977) e, successivamente, quello di coinvolgere ciascuno nella Promozione del benessere personale e collettivo (WHO, 1986). Obiettivi che, tuttavia, cominciano progressivamente a essere messi in discussione dall’avvento delle politiche neoliberiste nei paesi occidentali.

I giovani stranieri che frequentano gli atenei del nostro paese sono in vertiginoso aumento e per i soli studenti statunitensi si parla di circa trentamila soggetti ogni anno. L’offerta formativa delle università italiane si basa spesso su corsi che utilizzano l’inglese come lingua principale di comunicazione tra docenti e studenti. Ma la scommessa odierna della globalizzazione del sapere richiede molto più delle indispensabili competenze linguistiche...

Despite European legislation against age discrimination in the labour market, it is likely that older workers will continue to face obstacles and disadvantages when seeking, maintaining or changing employment. Vocational guidance holds a pivotal position in negotiating between the attitudes and demands of employers and the perspectives and needs of older people. This volume both reflects on changes in the later life-course and offers new perspectives and methodologies for policy and practice.

The main themes covered in the book are: forced and unforced migration; models of integration; critical issues for vocational guidance, including the limits and strengths of the concepts of diversity and multiculturalism, avoiding the pitfalls of stereotyping and cultural racism and identifying possible victims of trauma and torture; integration policy and practice in Denmark, Slovenia and the United Kingdom; assistance to victims of human trafficking in the Czech Republic; and the development of a partnership model for vocational guidance for refugees and asylum-seekers in Germany.

Transitional Employments in IT occupations: Opportunities or Risks for Women’s Career? This paper presents some results drawn from a case study of an Italian mediumlarge IT firm focusing on transitional employments of women IT professionals and the impact on their careers. It concludes that transitional labour markets played a marginal role in supporting transitional employments partly because they are still defined on standard employment of a male-breadwinner-worker as the ideal worker and partly because they are not sufficiently shaped for the specific needs of a knowledge-based-organisation. Instead a good capacity in creating new intellectual capital inside the organisation and a dual career/dual breadwinner model family, enhanced women IT professionals career’s opportunities after the transition from one employment status to another.