From 2c01f6a4dd9cfea622780061d09e21f8047f0b37 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Valeria Graziano Date: Mon, 26 Sep 2022 13:36:46 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] !publish! --- content/factor/faintinginjections.md | 6 +++++- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/content/factor/faintinginjections.md b/content/factor/faintinginjections.md index 5bce5ed..0e15219 100644 --- a/content/factor/faintinginjections.md +++ b/content/factor/faintinginjections.md @@ -14,7 +14,11 @@ Italy was the second country in Western capitalist Europe (after the UK, 1948) t [Chiara Giorgi, Rediscovering the roots of public health services. Lessons from Italy, OpenDemocracy, 24 March 2020](https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/can-europe-make-it/rediscovering-roots-public-health-services-lessons-italy/) -However, in the ‘60s, the national health conditions were dire. Italy had an average was of one death in the workplace per hour and one accident per minute (source: http://salus.adapt.it/infortuni-e-morti-sul-lavoro-i-dati-dal-1951-al-1970/. By comparison, today there are 3 deaths per day and 800.000 accidents per year). So in the ‘60s, as the country was undergoing massive industrialization, the idea of a “class war” was really a reality that workers could witness every day. And these were only numbers linked to direct deaths at work, without taking into consideration the indirect effects of environmental degradation and chronic conditions that begun to flare up at the time. +However, in the ‘60s, the national health conditions were dire. Italy had an average was of one death in the workplace per hour and one accident per minute (source: http://salus.adapt.it/infortuni-e-morti-sul-lavoro-i-dati-dal-1951-al-1970/. By comparison, today there are 3 deaths per day and 800.000 accidents per year). + +![](static/images/1morto.jpg) + +So in the ‘60s, as the country was undergoing massive industrialization, the idea of a “class war” was really a reality that workers could witness every day. And these were only numbers linked to direct deaths at work, without taking into consideration the indirect effects of environmental degradation and chronic conditions that begun to flare up at the time. To address this scenario, political movements begun to focus on the key term *nocività* – translatable as 'noxiousness' in English. This choice of term is crucial: the struggles for health begun as the political questioning of its opposite – which these movements identified not in sickness nor in fitness, or the capacity to optimally perform work.