Chapter L’idea di lavoro nella Costituzione italiana

Abstract

The author reconstructs the concept of work in the Constitutional system as concretely implemented to date, starting from the fundamental principles and rules on socio-economic relations as read by jurisprudence, especially constitutional, and scholars. The author argues that Italian Constitution distinguishes between “organized or organizable work” and “organizing work”: the first is accompanied above all by rights, the second by limits and duties. Basically, in the Italian Constitution work, whose freedom is guaranteed, is designed as an individual and collective necessity: and this creates tensions with the work ethic emerging in the age of the infosphere.