Percorsi di futuro interrotto. Crisi industriale e fine delle opportunità per la mobilità sociale in una valle alpina italiana.

Abstract

A once florid extractive industry in the Italian Alps became one of the larger and longer-lasting industries of the area. From the 1930s on, this industry generated a continuous need for workers throughout various conjunctures, but the Great Recession opened a period of industrial collapse and the diffusion of a sense of closing of opportunities for local inhabitants, with the silent expulsion of workers. The paper aims to reflect on the combination of elements acting on various spatial and temporal scales, regarding the experiences of a mountain locality in crisis and deindustrialization.

Keywords

• ‘mining’
• ‘great recession’
• ‘corporate community’
• ‘Alps’
• ‘deindustrialization’