Who cares? La (mancanza di) dignità sociale per il lavoro di cura

Starting from Stella La Forgia’s analysis on fundamental rights and social dignity, the Author clarifies the strong interdependency between the recognition and the effective protection of the right to care and the guarantee of the care workers’rights. In the DIY welfare, that has developed due to the reduction of the public welfare, the capacity to fulfil people needs depends on the cost restraint of care work. For this purpose, the State has set up a special regulation that considers the care work as a “gig work” and deprives the care workers of almost all rights guaranteed to employees. In this context, social dignity has been reduced to mere rhetoric.