Word: joblessness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Expectations were obviously too high, as Valenzi's Naples shows only too well. Despite the mayor's efforts to build employment, Naples still has the highest proportion of jobless in Italy, 84,000, or 14% of the labor force. While able-bodied men seek jobs, employers farm out work to be done illegally in household sweatshops, where women and children toil for minuscule wages without benefit of social security, labor laws or other protection...