Lo sfruttamento lavorativo tra vulnerabilità, filiere produttive e politiche di prevenzione

This book is the result of the 2022 PRIN research project “EXPLOIT – Labor Exploitation: An Interdisciplinary Study on Policies for the Prevention of Labor Exploitation” and systematically compiles its main scientific findings. The project was based on a simple—yet by no means self-evident—conviction: labor exploitation is not a residual pathology of contemporary labor markets, confined to a few sectors, specific regions of the country, or employment relationships characterized by blatant illegality. Rather, it is a structural phenomenon, capable of taking various forms and taking root even within formally compliant production systems, along complex supply chains, and in employment relationships where people’s vulnerability combines with profound economic and organizational imbalances. Starting from this premise meant, first and foremost, shifting the perspective: not stopping at the enforcement against the most serious offenses, but examining the conditions that make exploitation possible and the tools capable of preventing it.