{"id":19462,"date":"2016-05-12T22:45:50","date_gmt":"2016-05-12T22:45:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.carmenprestia.com\/men-and-corporals\/"},"modified":"2023-11-06T15:59:07","modified_gmt":"2023-11-06T15:59:07","slug":"men-and-corporals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.carmenprestia.com\/en\/men-and-corporals\/","title":{"rendered":"Men and corporals"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Author: <br\/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.carmenprestia.com\/en\/alessandro-leogrande\/\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"253\"><strong>Alessandro Leogrande<\/strong> <br\/><\/a>Publishing house: <br\/><strong>Feltrinelli<\/strong><br\/>Date of publication:<strong> <\/strong><br\/><strong>12-05-2016<\/strong><\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The South, and particularly Capitanata, has for several years become a destination for tens of thousands of immigrants who flock there for the tomato harvest season. Harvesting the &#8220;red gold&#8221; is extremely hard work that breaks backs and arms, but it is paid very little. They are workers framed in even pre-capitalist living and working situations: housed in dilapidated ruins, they are also subjected to the often sadistic harassment of &#8220;corporals,&#8221; who offer their labor to a corporate world that uses them to squeeze costs. Sometimes, these new &#8220;boors,&#8221; so different from the &#8220;boors&#8221; of yesterday, also have a hard time getting paid what little was agreed upon. And protests not infrequently result in death. A barbaric situation that scourges like a social cancer vast areas of Italy, where the rule of law seems to be totally absent, and where the only law of the exercise of brute violence applies. This novel-investigation, a true journey to the underworld, reveals the lives, personal destinies and deeper dynamics of the &#8220;blackest&#8221; face of our country.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The South, and particularly Capitanata, has for several years become a destination for tens of thousands of immigrants who flock there for the tomato harvest season. Harvesting the &#8220;red gold&#8221; is extremely hard work that breaks backs and arms, but it is paid very little. They are workers framed in&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":18897,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"off","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[141,177,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19462","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-alessandro-leogrande-en","category-libro-en","category-non-categorizzato"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.carmenprestia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19462","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.carmenprestia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.carmenprestia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.carmenprestia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.carmenprestia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19462"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.carmenprestia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19462\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19465,"href":"https:\/\/www.carmenprestia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19462\/revisions\/19465"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.carmenprestia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18897"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.carmenprestia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19462"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.carmenprestia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19462"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.carmenprestia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19462"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}