Recent anthropological studies of Italy have presented vivid and compelling accounts of the anxieties about precarity and economic dependence that have emerged as both state protections of employment and social welfare provisions have weakened. This essay, in contrast, argues that for a substantial sector of the Italian populace, work relations have been governed less by a state‐regulated regime of labour than by kinship ideologies and relations. Since the beginning of industrial manufacturing in the mid‐19th century and continuing into the 21st century, family firms have been the dominant employer in Italy. By following the changes in the silk industry and its allied clothing manufacturing sector in the 25 years from 1985 to 2010, this essay shows how aspirations and ascriptions of economic independence and dependence among firm owners, their children and hired managers are shaped by kinship relations and class trajectories.

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意大利家庭资本主义中的独立和依赖归属

意大利最近的人类学研究已经生动而令人信服地描述了人们对不稳定和经济依赖的担忧，这些担忧随着国家对就业的保护和社会福利条款的削弱而出现。相比之下，本文认为，对于意大利大部分人口来说，工作关系受国家管制的劳动制度的支配，而不是亲属意识形态和关系的支配。自19世纪中叶开始工业制造并持续到21世纪以来，家族企业一直是意大利的主要雇主。跟随1985年至2010年这25年间丝绸产业及其相关服装制造业的变化，本文展示了企业所有者之间经济独立性和依赖性的诉求和归属，