Year: 2019
Type: book-review
Abstract: The book "Caporalato.An authentic agromafia" by Fiammetta Fanizza and Marco Omizzolo analyses the presence and rooting of organized crime within Italian agriculture, especially in some regions of Southern Italy, supporting a very interesting thesis: caporalato is not a mere practice of illegal intermediation of workforce, but rather a fully-fledged system which is the core of the activity of organized crime in the field of agriculture and lies on harsh life and work conditions imposed on immigrant farm labourers.A method of individual exploitation and social subjugation of local economies, the caporalato is the beating heart of agromafia, it is an agromafia, thus any debate or action which does not consider such feature will fail.
Author: Fabio Perocco
Institution: Ca' Foscari University of Venice
Language: Portuguese
Subfield: Sociology and Political Science
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W2970533262