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| === San Precario ===
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| * Emerges as an iconographic figure within Italy in 2004
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| * Spreads awareness and critiquing the Government’s introduction of casual independent employment contracts
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| * Created as a faux saint, which mimics the many rituals of saint idolisation
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| * A reaction to the ‘flexiworker’ has particular resonance in Italy as the contemporary government policies reject the post-war traditionalism of il posto fis, or ‘permanent position’
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| * Italy has very little in the way of a social security system. Thus the plight of the casualised worker, who often falls into periods of unemployment, can become significantly disadvantaged
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| * Italy embraced the 1970’s movement of ‘free-flexibility’ which promoted freedom from salaries and capitalist control
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| * The Italian Government in recent years has used this concept of ‘flexibility’ to introduce exploitative individual contracts
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| * San Precario’s request is for Flexicurity, welfare which protects workers without rejecting their earlier independent ideals of ‘Flexibility’
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