Autore
Altopiedi, Rosalba

Titolo
Azione collettiva e costruzione della vittimizzazione. Il caso Eternit
Periodico
Studi sulla questione criminale
Anno: 2013 - Fascicolo: 1 - Pagina iniziale: 31 - Pagina finale: 60

In this paper I'll describe the mechanisms by which the very high mortalityrate among employees and local citizen became a criminal case, thebiggest lawsuit in Europe against the asbestos industry. A local grassrootsmovement played a pivotal role in this case. Starting with the notion thatcriminalization of the management and victimization of the workers areprocesses that evolve simultaneously, I'll argue that the highly damagingworking conditions were no longer treated as a "normal" state of affairs,when the people involved realized that they actually were victims. Thischange represented the result of the combined action of several factors,among which collective action by Trade Unions and AFeVA (association ofvictims) played a major role. The local grassroots movement gave to theworkers and the citizens the opportunity to understand that they all shareda common destiny. The awareness process moved along two axes: fromdenial to acknowledgement, from individual perception of the "normality"of an "abnormal" state of affairs to a collective recognition that the state ofaffairs was abnormal indeed.



SICI: 1828-4973(2013)1<31:ACECDV>2.0.ZU;2-X
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