{"id":13564,"date":"2012-02-15T09:51:18","date_gmt":"2012-02-15T14:51:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=13564"},"modified":"2012-02-15T09:51:18","modified_gmt":"2012-02-15T14:51:18","slug":"italy-faces-the-end-of-a-job-for-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2012\/02\/15\/italy-faces-the-end-of-a-job-for-life\/","title":{"rendered":"Italy faces the end of &#8220;a job for life&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You could say that they&#8217;re <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2012\/02\/15\/world\/europe\/in-italy-facing-the-end-of-the-lifetime-job.html\" target=\"_blank\">not happy about the possibility<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>It was just an off-the-cuff quip during a television interview this month. But when Prime Minister Mario Monti remarked that having a job for life in today\u2019s economy was no longer feasible for young people \u2014 indeed, it was \u201cmonotonous\u201d \u2014 he set off a barrage of protests, laying bare one of the sacrosanct tenets of Italian society that the euro zone crisis has placed at risk. <\/p>\n<p>Reaction was fast, furious, bipartisan and intergenerational. \u201cI think the prime minister has to be careful with the words he uses because people are a little angry,\u201d Claudia Vori, a 31-year-old Rome native who has had 18 different jobs since graduating from high school in 1999, said of Mr. Monti\u2019s \u201cmonotonous\u201d moment. <\/p>\n<p>[. . .]<\/p>\n<p>In Italy in particular, every major political force after World War II subscribed to the idea of guaranteeing the work of the male breadwinner to preserve the traditional family structure, said Elisabetta Gualmini, a labor expert who teaches at the University of Bologna. This social doctrine was also blessed by the Roman Catholic Church, which still holds much sway in Italy.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe problem is that this model is myopic\u201d in a global marketplace, Professor Gualmini said. \u201cBut Italy has entrenched itself on this model, which became a strong ideology and so rooted in beliefs that it cannot be challenged.\u201d <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You could say that they&#8217;re not happy about the possibility: It was just an off-the-cuff quip during a television interview this month. But when Prime Minister Mario Monti remarked that having a job for life in today\u2019s economy was no longer feasible for young people \u2014 indeed, it was \u201cmonotonous\u201d \u2014 he set off a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,62,339,9],"tags":[337,95,217],"class_list":["post-13564","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","category-europe","category-italy","category-law","tag-eu","tag-jobs","tag-rights"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-3wM","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13564","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13564"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13564\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13565,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13564\/revisions\/13565"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13564"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13564"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13564"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}