@article{ref1,
title="Living it on the skin: Italian states, working illness",
journal="American ethnologist",
year="2008",
author="Molé, Noelle J.",
volume="35",
number="2",
pages="189-210",
abstract="In this article, I examine the codification of an Italian work-related illness caused by mobbing, a type of psychological harassment that emerged at the moment neoliberal policies transformed Italy's historically protectionist labor market. I trace how the medicalization of mobbing has expanded workers’ access to compensation, resources, and discursive tools for criticizing neoliberal labor conditions, even as it has produced new structures of surveillance. I unravel the neoliberal politics of a state that protects workers’ health yet governs worker–citizens through an apparatus of medical experts. I find that workers’ labor problems are experienced and managed as bodily problems in ways important to remaking Italian citizenship. [neoliberalism, state, labor, biopolitics, citizenship, bodies, Italy]<p />",
language="",
issn="0094-0496",
doi="10.1111/j.1548-1425.2008.00030.x",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1548-1425.2008.00030.x"
}