After briefly reviewing the main stages marking labour market reform in the Nineties, as well as the further reform proposals currently under discussion, this article analyses the actual and potential impact of these reforms on the "employment relation" in Italy. Focus is made: (i) on the...

I explore the story of Sufia, as told by Muhammad Yunus, the "poor people's banker". First, I examine the accounts which alternative economic and philosophical approaches (Conventionalism, Libertarianism, Welfarism, the Capabilities approach) may provide of the employment relation in which Sufia...