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89 Int'l Lab. Rev. 268 (1964)
Precarious Employment in Sicily

handle is hein.journals/intlr89 and id is 282 raw text is: Precarious Employment in Sicily by Paolo SYLOS-LABINI 1 In the following pages Professor Sylos-Labini suggests that the concept of precarious employment may be of greater value in studies of developing countries and regions than the more usual concepts of unemployment (open or disguised) and underemployment. After defining the concept, the author attempts a systematic analysis of the extent of precarious employment in Sicily in both agricultural and non-agricultural activities, as well as of its social and economic consequences. A BOUT four years ago, when I was teaching in the University of Catania, I organised a group of young research workers to carry out a series of inquiries into the Sicilian economy. The project received the approval and co-operation of that university; it was sponsored and financed by the Istituto Feltrinelli of Milan, which is publishing the whole series of inquiries-a fat book of about 1,200 pages. The whole work has required about two years of field work (1959-61) plus about a year for revising the different monographs. Sicily affords a particularly fertile field of study for economists who are interested in the problems of economic development. To a considerable extent its economy is still backward, but after the Second World War a process of industrialisation started, creating islands of development, especially in the eastern part of the region. Sicily is now in that delicate stage of transition which lies between complete backwardness and a self-propelling process of development. Such a process has not yet really started, but there are indications that the Sicilian economy is at its threshold. Some of the inquiries are concerned with general problems -demographic trends, migrations, employment and wages, the structure and evolution of agriculture and industry, credit organi- sation and also problems of economic policy of the region ; others, 1 Professor of Economics, University of Rome.

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